Change ia64 mca sysctls to use standard dynamic sysctls

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:44 AM, John Baldwin wrote:

> While working on the locking for the sysctl tree, I ran into the
> pseudo-dynamic machine check sysctls in ia64.  It is not really a  
> good idea
> to call sysctl_register_oid() with a spin lock held and once I add  
> locking to
> sysctl it becomes a bad LOR.  This changes the code to use the  
> public API for
> adding dynamic sysctls outside of the spin lock.  Please test this  
> as it is a
> prerequisite for finishing the locking of the sysctl tree.

This won't be a solution, because eventually this code gets called
for machine checks, which means that locks can be held (which is
then the least of our worries :-)

In any case: malloc(M_WAITOK) cannot be used. We should probably
delay updating the sysctl tree and do it in a more controlled
environment. If you can implement a simple linked list to store
the saved state and remove the call to SYSCTL_ADD_OID, then I'll
work on that part after you're done. Does that sound like a plan?

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com