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

Dieter freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com
Sun Dec 28 23:33:24 PST 2008


> > I'll rephrase my question.  In the old days, locking was done with spl.
> > The new way is with mutex.  But with the spl calls being replaced with
> > noops, and as far as I can tell the driver is not using mutex, there
> > doesn't appear to be any locking.  So the driver can step on itself.
> 
> 
> Well, there is locking around a couple of mutex's via FW_GLOCK().

Ah, I wasn't grepping for the right string.  So there *is* mutex
locking.  Although the lingering spl calls are still troubling.


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