Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_xl.c

>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 03:42:08 +0100
>From: Bruce M Simpson <bms_at_spc.org>
>To: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_xl.c
>Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org


>On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:34:35AM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>>   Log:
>>   Reintroduce and clean up locking in xl(4).

>Please report any problems to me ASAP. Be sure to enclose a full stack
>backtrace, preferably using WITNESS.

>If you can test this on an SMP system, please do -- further SMP testing
>across vr(4), rl(4) and xl(4) of my patch sets is needed urgently.

I apologize for the delay; I had a few challenges (unrelated, as far as
I know, to the code in question).

Summary: no problems found (SMP -- 2x886 MHz PIII w/ rl NIC).

However, after the usual build/boot of today's -CURRENT, I went ahead
and, following the usual reality checks, did another build/boot cycle
successfully.  (Normally, I merely do the reality checks, then shut the
machine down until time to get ready for the following day's builds.)

This was especially welcome because the machine had paniced running
kernels built yesterday & the day before.  (I believe other folks
reported those, and as mentioned above, I was having some other issues,
so I didn't report them separately, as I believed the reports would be
more noise than signal.  Besides, some of my issues were with my laptop
-- which never did panic on kernels built with the same sources, but had
started powering itself off sometimes.)

[I note that the SMP box in question runs headless; I use my laptop to
access it.  When the tool one uses for access becomes unreliable, things
tend to get a bit dicier than usual.  :-{]

For reference, here's a recent log of CVSup activity; the build sequence
starts around 0400 hrs. (US/Pacific):

freebeast(5.2-C)[1] tail /var/log/cvsup-history.log
CVSup begin from cvsup14.freebsd.org at Sun Jul  4 03:47:02 PDT 2004
CVSup ended from cvsup14.freebsd.org at Sun Jul  4 03:52:24 PDT 2004
CVSup begin from cvsup12.freebsd.org at Mon Jul  5 01:47:16 PDT 2004
CVSup ended from cvsup12.freebsd.org at Mon Jul  5 01:53:18 PDT 2004
CVSup begin from cvsup14.freebsd.org at Mon Jul  5 03:47:02 PDT 2004
CVSup ended from cvsup14.freebsd.org at Mon Jul  5 03:52:27 PDT 2004
CVSup begin from cvsup12.freebsd.org at Tue Jul  6 01:47:16 PDT 2004
CVSup ended from cvsup12.freebsd.org at Tue Jul  6 01:53:29 PDT 2004
CVSup begin from cvsup14.freebsd.org at Tue Jul  6 03:47:02 PDT 2004
CVSup ended from cvsup14.freebsd.org at Tue Jul  6 03:52:17 PDT 2004
freebeast(5.2-C)[2] uname -a
FreeBSD freebeast.catwhisker.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #10: Tue Jul  6 09:58:44 PDT 2004     root_at_freebeast.catwhisker.org:/common/S4/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBEAST  i386
freebeast(5.2-C)[3] 

Peace,
david
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