[PATCH] ppbus/ppc locking

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Nov 20 11:08:05 PST 2008


On Wednesday 19 November 2008 07:15:35 pm Bruce Simpson wrote:
> John,
> 
> Thanks for this.
> 
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > Please test!  This is the last non-MPSAFE network driver at this point.  
This 
> > ...
> >   
> 
> My only box using lpt(4) is running 7.1-PRERELEASE, this patch should 
> backport, yes?

You will need to grab sys/dev/ppc/* and sys/dev/ppbus/* from HEAD since I've 
committed some style fixes and had changed the interrupt handling in HEAD 
(and have changed it again in this patch).

> It is a right pain in the arse when something happens with my venerable 
> GCC Elite 600, e.g. a paper jam, and the entire box grinds to a halt 
> because lpt_intr() was called with Giant held.
> 
> cheers
> BMS
> 
> 



-- 
John Baldwin


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