Subject: How to protect pool operations from interrupts ?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org, tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@ics.muni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/12/2000 20:19:44
Hello,

it seems that pool_get(), pool_put() etc. are protected from concurrent
kernel threads with simple_lock(). But simple_lock does does nothing
in !MULTIPROCESSOR case and does not block any interrupts.

I have seen the following scenario:

arpresolve()
   m_freem()
      -interrupt-
        tulip...intr()
            MGETHDR()
            -crash-

Should we protect each m_freem() called from code running with lower spl
( s=splnet();m_freem();splx(s) ) or should pool protect itself like 
malloc()/free() do ?

How about non-mbuf pools ?

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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