Subject: Re: vfs init q
To: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/13/2000 10:48:41
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:26:56 +0100 (MET)
Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz> wrote:
> And, perhaps more importantly - can it sleep when called via vfsinit()
> from main() ? Some filesystems initialize pools and they currently
> don't pass PR_WAITOK. This is sometimes problem - when I load/unload
> e.g. msdosfs LKM several times, I get occasional panic in pool initialization
> function (I don't recall exactly, but probably pool_page_alloc_nointr()).
Yah, sleeping is probably okay. Um, what was the panic exactly? No available
KVA space, or something?
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>