Re: [PATCH] Locking fixes for tl(4)

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:11:00 -0400
On Monday 05 September 2005 08:07 am, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 00:01 +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, John Baldwin wrote:
> > >> Patch fixes locking for tl(4) and marks it MPSAFE.  Please test,
> > >> thanks!
> > >>
> > >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/tl_locking.patch
> > >
> > > Doesn't work, I'm afraid.  Panic on attach:
> >
> > ... because tl_hardreset() is called before sc->tl_ifp is allocated.  I'm
> > recompiling now, having moved the if_alloc and related code to before the
> > first hardreset() call.
>
> The attached patch has survived pan average amount of network activity
> overnight.  It's basically your original patch, but with a slight
> rearrangement in tl_attach() to move the if_alloc() call earlier.

I'll probably just leave the conditional asserts out altogether as that's what 
I've done with all the other drivers I've committed and leave if_alloc() 
where it is.  Thanks for testing!

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