ACPI mpsafe patch for testing
Nate Lawson
nate at root.org
Thu Aug 12 11:59:52 PDT 2004
Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:21:17AM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
>
>>I plan to commit the mpsafe patch for acpi on Friday morning. No
>>problems so far for testers and I've run it for weeks (versions of it
>>for months). The only change I've made is to update it against commits
>>so it will apply cleanly.
>>
>>Please test if you get a chance. Again the URL:
>>http://root.org/~nate/freebsd/acpi_mpsafe.diff.gz
>
>
> ia64: pluto1.freebsd.org is running with the patch. I also performed
> a reboot without problems.
>
> Note that pluto1 runs an UP kernel. Are there any SMP specific MD
> code paths you think I should test or is it sufficient that SMP is
> tested on i386 (or amd64)?
For ia64, I was most concerned about alignment issues. So anything (UP
or SMP) that exercises code paths is helpful. The only SMP-specific
things to test are power-off on shutdown. Run it a bunch of times to be
sure that it continues to work. Note this isn't in the acpi locking
path but ACPI-CA has its own locks which are now not redundantly covered
by Giant. It has been running this way in Linux for a year or so.
Still, it's good to have that test coverage too.
--
Nate
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