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Re: Problem with syscall_disestablish() - PR kern/50430



On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Martin Husemann wrote:

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 05:48:17PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
it also slows down normal operation adding branches and data access
to the call path of every system call.  and bloats struct lwp and
more.

At least all operations on the syscall pathes need to be #ifdef MODULAR.

How about just disabling all unloading for modules that ever used
syscall_establish() instead?

That would mean that pretty much all of the opportunistically-loaded
compat modules would hang around forever once loaded.


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