On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:17:03PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 5.1-R on a sparc64 machine, and am getting warnings > > about mallocing data w/ a lock aquired. > > > > dmesg output: > > malloc() of "64" with the following non-sleepablelocks held: > > exclusive sleep mutex netisr lock r = 0 (0xc0271890) locked @ net/netisr.c:215 > > For what it's worth, these warnings also appear if netisr direct > dispatch is enabled with the fxp(4) driver.
These messages occur because our link layer address management code does mallocs with M_WAITOK. We need to teach that code to not wait when called from the interrupt path, and pass back up failure modes, or avoid holding locks while calling it. Probably the former, although the latter is also going to be good from a lock order perspective. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
