Re: missing KERNEL_LOCK ?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 03:32:29PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> That looks plausibly correct.
> 
> Two thoughts:
> 
>   Have you run with LOCKDEBUG?  We have found that netbsd-6 can run
>   with LOCKDEBUG and stay up, only about a 2x speed penalty.

No, I've not tried this. Indeed LOCKDEBUG causes more serialization so it
could hide this kind of problem.

> 
>   you are making changes to the upstream ipfilter. that's just how it
>   is.  But I wonder if the lock should be in the ifdef on recent netbsd;
>   I do not recall when the locking rules changed.

somewhere between -5 and -6, and only for netinet (the netinet6 stack is
still running under KENREL_LOCK)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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