kern/118093: firewire bus reset hogs CPU, causing data to be lost

Dieter freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com
Thu Dec 25 22:25:03 PST 2008


> > I confirmed that spl's are complete no-ops since rel 5.  So, you want 
> > to ignore
> > them as they are just markers now where locking should be implemented.

I hunted down the spl code, and you're right.  Wow, I wonder how drivers
still using spl calls work at all?

> is to real behavior, but /var/log/messages has a tendency to get garbled 
> like this:
> 
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: fwohci1: Initiate bus reset
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: fwohci1: BUS reset
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: fwohci1: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=8, 
> CYCLEMASTER mode
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: firewi
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: re1:
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: 1 n
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: odes
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: , ma
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: xhop
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: <=
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: 0, c
> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: able

Do the lines get folded on the console, or only in /var/log/messages?


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