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Restore the ability to deregister an eventhandler from within the callback.

Description

Restore the ability to deregister an eventhandler from within the callback.

When the EVENTHANDLER(9) subsystem was created, it was a documented feature
that an eventhandler callback function could safely deregister itself. In
r200652 that feature was inadvertantly broken by adding drain-wait logic to
eventhandler_deregister(), so that it would be safe to unload a module upon
return from deregistering its event handlers.

There are now 145 callers of EVENTHANDLER_DEREGISTER(), and it's likely many
of them are depending on the drain-wait logic that has been in place for 8
years. So instead of creating a separate eventhandler_drain() and adding it
to some or all of those 145 call sites, this creates a separate
eventhandler_drain_nowait() function for the specific purpose of
deregistering a callback from within the running callback.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12561

Details

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Differential Revision
D12561: Restore the ability to deregister an eventhandler callback from within the callback.
Parents
rS324412: MFC r324173
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