Re: Making global variables of if.c MPSAFE

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Ryota Ozaki wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Hisashi T Fujinaka 
> <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost> wrote:
> >  On 26 Jul, 2014, at 22:38 , Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > > The global variables are read-mostly, so I replace the mutex with a
> > > rwlock and use it for all. Unfortunately, ifnet_list may be accessed
> > > from interrupt context (only read though) so that I add a spin mutex
> > > for it; we hold the mutex when we modify ifnet_list as well as the
> > > rwlock.
> >
> >
> > This breaks BEAGLEBOARDXM, btw.
>
> I'm sorry for the breakage. (Though the criminal is another patch of mine.)
>
> Here is a patch: http://www.netbsd.org/~ozaki-r/ethersubr_bigpktpps_fix.diff
> I'll commit it if it's appropriate.
>
> Thanks for your report,

It fixed my build, thanks.

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