On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:15:35 pm Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:10:59PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > Another thing done inside destroy_dev is the call to the destructors > of the cdevpriv data, that never had any restrictions on the sleepable > context. > > We do have the KPI for the callers that cannot drop the locks and need > to do destroy_dev, destroy_dev_sched(9).
With the caveat that you can't make any assumptions about other threads in your cdevsw routines being finished when it returns. If you have per-device data structures you need to free that are not handled by cdevpriv then you probably cannot safely free them. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
