[PATCH] ppbus/ppc locking
Bruce M. Simpson
bms at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 4 07:01:04 PST 2008
John Baldwin wrote:
> Please test! This is the last non-MPSAFE network driver at this point. This
> patch adds locking for the ppbus(4)/ppc(4) devices and the various ppbus
> child devices (lpt, vpo, lpbb, ppi, pps). The basic model is that a single
> mutex in the ppc(4) driver protects the ppc0 hardware and is shared with the
> various child drivers. Two drivers now have detach methods that did not have
> them before (plip and ppi). I've done some simple testing on my laptop (able
> to load the drivers and do some simple things w/o panic'ing or tripping
> assertions), but I am not really able to test the peripheral drivers fully.
>
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ppc_locking.patch
>
>
Runway lpt Giant is an occasionally show stopping issue for me because
my printer is attached via the plt port. I may get time to look at this
later on...
I tried applying these patches against 7-STABLE.
ppc_cleanup.patch applied OK to 7.
ppc_intr.patch applied OK to 7 with interrupt.h change manually merged,
and some fixups to ppc.c for earlier intr_event kpi.
ppc_locking.patch does not apply cleanly, and it's too much for me to
deal with right now.
I found I had to hack up an existing 7 tree in /usr/src to get things to
compile because of the wide scope of the changes (touching kern, sys
etc), I couldn't just use an svn checkout to work from.
cheers
BMS
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