On 16-May-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> Oh, I'd like you to think twice about this. Massive amounts of driver
> rototilling should be avoided at this point.
Well, it's causing panics in some cases. Those are bad. Basically I would be
reverting earlier changes.
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>>
>> On 16-May-01 Bob Bishop wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > This while building world, with a kernel cvsup at Fri Apr 27 04:06:40 BST
>> > 2001
>> >
>> > kern/kern_synch.c:386 sleeping with "vr0" locked from pci/if_vr.c:1315
>> >
>> > abridged backtrace:
>> >
>> > panic()
>> > propagate_priority()
>> > _mtx_lock_sleep()
>> > vr_intr()
>> > ithread_loop()
>> > fork_exit()
>> > fork_trampoline()
>>
>> Well, I think the best thing to do for now will be to back out all the
>> ethernet
>> driver locking until we figure out how we are actually going to lock them.
>> The original locks that went in starting with fxp many months ago weren't
>> quite
>> right but have been mostly harmless up to this point. There are some cases
>> where we sleep with locks however, which can lead to problems.
>>
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