Re: Sleeping on "isp_mboxwaiting" with the following non-sleepablelocks held:

2003-10-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Jacob writes: >[1]: by 'sleep', I mean if I do *my* locking right, I should be able to >yield the processor and wait for an event (an interrupt in this case). Not so when your device driver is entered through the devsw->strategy() function, since that [cw]o

Re: Sleeping on "isp_mboxwaiting" with the following non-sleepablelocks held:

2003-10-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Matthew Jacob" writes: >Well, I don't agree with the design here, but it is what it is. I'll >make the change that you've added a requirement for. This is nothing new, but it is new that we can and do enforce it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Ze

Re: Sleeping on "isp_mboxwaiting" with the following non-sleepablelocks held:

2003-10-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:30:21PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > So? How about some details and context? Um, what more "details and context" do you need? I provided the log of the system activity (specifically, media errors and swap read failure) leading up to the panic, and the ddb backtrace. >

RE: Sleeping on "isp_mboxwaiting" with the following non-sleepablelocks held:

2003-10-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
is Kennaway'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sleeping on "isp_mboxwaiting" with the following non-sleepablelocks held: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Matthew Jacob" writes: >So? How about some details and context? > >I thought was told that

Re: Sleeping on "isp_mboxwaiting" with the following non-sleepablelocks held:

2003-10-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Matthew Jacob" writes: >So? How about some details and context? > >I thought was told that being able to use locks in HBAs is fine. I had >them on for a while, and then had them off. I turned them on again over >a month ago. I'm somewhat surprised to see that a prob

RE: Sleeping on "isp_mboxwaiting" with the following non-sleepablelocks held:

2003-10-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
So? How about some details and context? I thought was told that being able to use locks in HBAs is fine. I had them on for a while, and then had them off. I turned them on again over a month ago. I'm somewhat surprised to see that a problem shows up now. *I* do the right thing with locks, IMO. I