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Re: SPL NOT ZERO ON SYSCALL ENTRY



On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:46:07AM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> wrstuden%NetBSD.org@localhost said:
> > My guess is the problem was a missing splx() in an error-handling
> > case.  
> 
> That's what I'd also had assumed if the reason was
> "not lowered in syscall exit". But this was on entry...

Thinking about it, I think we went with mutexes that hold SPL state. So 
what might be happening is that we're releasing SPL mutexes (that's not 
the name, but I'm forgetting what exact term we used) in an order opposite 
of the one in which we took them. ??

Take care,

Bill

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