Subject: Re: per page verified exec
To: None <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/11/2006 22:01:01
> > are you talking about this comment?
> > > PGO_LOCKED: fault data structures are locked
> >
>
> No, this one which is in the function arguments...
>
> struct vm_page **pps /* IN/OUT */,
> int *npagesp /* IN (OUT if PGO_LOCKED)*/,
>
> hmmm but that could be interpreted to mean something else.
it just means it's an input/output of the function. :)
> Still, I am puzzled by your concern - if all is well then the per page
> checking does not change anything. If the pages mismatch then, I
> think, I follow the same process as the genfs code when the page in
> fails.
uvn_get(PGO_LOCKED) is usually called with spin locks held.
thus you can't sleep. otoh, a function you are calling seems sleepable.
so i think it's broken.
YAMAMOTO Takashi