On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 05:25:25PM +0100, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 12:40:31PM +0000, Antoine Brodin wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Mateusz Guzik <m...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Author: mjg > > > Date: Sat Nov 11 22:39:33 2017 > > > New Revision: 325726 > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/325726
> > > Log: > > > Avoid locking and refing in sysctl_kern_proc_args if possible. > > > Turns out the sysctl is called a lot e.g. by pkg-static. > > > Modified: > > > head/sys/kern/kern_proc.c > > There is a regression after this commit: x11-toolkits/gnustep-gui no > > longer builds. > > You can find a failure log at > > http://pb2.nyi.freebsd.org/data/111i386-default-PR224618/2017-12-28_12h28m51s/logs/errors/gnustep-gui-0.25.1_3.log > > The failure seems to be from lang/gnustep-base: > > /* get the argument vectors */ > > vectors = kvm_getargv(kptr, proc_ptr, 0); > It looks like the new fast path only works properly if p->p_args is not > NULL. If p->p_args is NULL, this usually means that the arguments are > longer than ps_arg_cache_limit and must be retrieved from (pageable) > process memory and not wired p->p_args->ar_args. It is possible to > duplicate that piece of code as well but that is probably not worth it. I created a review that fixes the problem, but I am not completely sure that it preserves the original intent of the optimization: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13729 -- Jilles Tjoelker _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"