On Friday 16 December 2005 03:52 pm, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > John Baldwin writes: > > On Friday 16 December 2005 11:34 am, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > I'm trying to use an ndis driver on an amd64 machine running > > > FreeBSD/amd64 -current from yesterday. If I enable PREEMPTION, the > > > machine hangs when loading the driver (kldload never returns): > > > > > > ndis0: <Myricom Myri-10G Ethernet Adapter> mem > > > 0xfc000000-0xfcffffff,0xfdf00000-0xfdffffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on > > > pci5 ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 > > > <hang> > > > > > > Witness detects no problems, and if I disable PREEMPTION, the driver > > > seems to work fine. Is PREEMPTION not safe to be used with the > > > ndisulator, or is there a problem with the ndis driver itself? > > > > > > I've included some very brief debugging info below.. > > > > Looks like an ithread has preempted your driver's start routine. If you > > let it run some more and then break into ddb is the same thread (pid 11) > > still running? Also, which process is pid 11? > > Naturally, I no longer have that kernel :( > > I just built a new, PREEMPTION enabled kernel. Booting in > single user, I see a hang in the irq thread. It seems to > always be in this thread. > > I think the difference is that I don't have the if_sk driver loaded, > which shares that irq. > > Can you remind me how to get irq counts from ddb? It > would be intersting to see if the irq hander was called > repeatedly, or if it was just stuck in the handler. show intrcnt -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Fri Dec 16 2005 - 20:38:10 UTC
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