On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 12:20:11PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Aug 28, 2005, at 8:17 AM, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> 
> >allocating pages from UVM can call wakeup(), so we must avoid that
> >while holding sched_lock.  one way to do this would be to call
> >sadata_upcall_alloc() before acquiring sched_lock and passing the
> >resulting pointer to sa_switch(), instead of calling that in
> >sa_switch() itself.  does anyone have any better suggestions?
> >if not, I'll fix it that way.
> 
> That sounds reasonable.

	another option I was thinking of was to have UVM_KICK_PDAEMON
set an atomic flag that indicates the page daemon needs to be awakened,
which causes wakeup (or even directly sched_wakeup) to be called sometime
later.  (say, in ltsleep)  That'd also save a lock/unlock.
	then again, that see more fragile, and maybe that's muddling the
distinction between the process scheduling code and the uvm code too much.

eric