svn commit: r187978 - user/thompsa/usb/sys/dev/usb2/ethernet

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 21:10:51 PST 2009


On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 08:36:18PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20090201213749.GJ32503 at citylink.fud.org.nz>
>             Andrew Thompson <thompsa at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 02:28:08PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > In message: <200902010650.n116obU1045871 at svn.freebsd.org>
> : >             Andrew Thompson <thompsa at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : > : +	locked = mtx_owned(&sc->sc_mtx);
> : > : +	if (!locked)
> : > : +		AUE_LOCK(sc);
> : > 
> : > You do know this is racy, right?
> : 
> : Yea... It only get called unlocked during mii probe+attach so its fine.
> : I havnt actaully checked if its ok to hold a mutex during
> : mii_phy_probe() which would make this go away.
> 
> You hold GIANT when probe+attach, which means I think you can't

AFAIK this is not true on USB2 and I think this is reason why
it have to lock/unlock dance in probe/attach.

> acquire any other locks...
> 
> Warner


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