testers needed for CAM INVARIANTS fix

Kenneth D. Merry ken at kdm.org
Tue Sep 2 21:50:34 PDT 2003


On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:46:16 +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> 
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, 16:13-0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> 
> >
> > I've got a fix for the panic from the cd(4)/da(4) drivers when INVARIANTS
> > is turned on in -stable.
> >
> > The fix is to create a task queue that runs in a thread context and use
> > that to create the sysctl variables needed by cd(4) and da(4).  The
> > eventual fix will be to move the CAM transport layer probe code into a
> > kernel thread.
> >
> > Anyway, these patches work for me, but if I could get some feedback from
> > people running with INVARIANTS turned on in -stable, I'd appreciate it.
> >
> > If it seems to work for people, I'll talk to re@ about getting this in
> > before 4.9 goes out the door.
> 
> It seems it works.  I am running my usuall stress tests now, thanks a
> lot.  patch(1)-friendly diff is there:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~maxim/diff/cam.sysctl.stable.20030901

Thanks for testing it.

I just committed the -current version of the above patches, I'll work on
getting into -stable now.

Ken
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