Subject: Re: Please audit pool use in your code!
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/19/2006 16:03:25
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 07:38:08PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:22:59PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> >=20
> > I ask all developers to _please_ look at any code in which they have
> > used the pool allocator and double-check that any uses of pool_put/pool=
_get
> > which could be reached from interrupt context are bracketed by the corr=
ect
> > spl/splx calls to block such interrupts.
>=20
> Do you know which pool gets corrupted ? As pools works on full pages, and
> items are usually much smaller, it's likely that the item which gets
> corrupted is of the same kind as the one that caused the corruption.

The FreeBSD folks had issues with items that weren't the same kind, but=20
were the same size as others. So what size items are we looking at?

Take care,

Bill

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