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authorjhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2000-11-16 02:16:44 +0000
committerjhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2000-11-16 02:16:44 +0000
commitc0bba69cbe7c4beee5213a4f1494387ee365db4c (patch)
treebc01d9302c1c47d1c7ec3254c6bfc60515318af1 /sys/amd64
parent4b0f06d83c650d18d7bc905ae27eb7412fcfc038 (diff)
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Don't release and acquire Giant in mi_switch(). Instead, release and
acquire Giant as needed in functions that call mi_switch(). The releases need to be done outside of the sched_lock to avoid potential deadlocks from trying to acquire Giant while interrupts are disabled. Submitted by: witness
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/amd64')
-rw-r--r--sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c b/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c
index 674f77a..21e5e12 100644
--- a/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c
+++ b/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c
@@ -192,11 +192,13 @@ userret(p, frame, oticks, have_giant)
* our priority.
*/
s = splhigh();
+ DROP_GIANT_NOSWITCH();
mtx_enter(&sched_lock, MTX_SPIN);
setrunqueue(p);
p->p_stats->p_ru.ru_nivcsw++;
mi_switch();
mtx_exit(&sched_lock, MTX_SPIN);
+ PICKUP_GIANT();
splx(s);
while ((sig = CURSIG(p)) != 0) {
if (have_giant == 0) {
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