Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

[Boris Popov]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Bruce Evans wrote:

> > Given that this is a change in splxxx() I suspect that it breaks
> > most modules, but probably not all modules.  A quick grep -l spl * | wc
> 
> Given that this is a change in the splxxx() implementation, it breaks
> zero modules.
> 
> splxxx() was changed from an inline function to an ordinary function
> when SMP development started, to give the same ABI for the SMP case as
> for the non-SMP case.  This gives the same ABI for different SMP
> implementations as a side effect.

        simple_lock* functions has breakage too. They defined as macros
for non-SMP case and as functions for SMP.

--
Boris Popov



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