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Re: NetBSD xen dom0 kernel panic



On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:16:06PM -0400, Peter wrote:
> I am not certain of this, but I think the bridge code calls
> bridge_rtupdate from interrupt contexts and I know I suggested in an
> earlier email that calls to this be put on a soft interrupt queue.
> bridge_rtupdate calls pool_get which calls rumpuser_malloc which, I'm
> guessing here, is a malloc call.

No, pool_get() doesn't call rumpuser_malloc() in the kernel. It does when
it's built in the userland library (which of course is never called
from interrupt context, as it's userland)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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