Re: PANIC: blockable slep lock (sx) msi _at_ ....msi.c:374

From: Attilio Rao <attilio_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 06:18:51 +0200
Scott Long wrote:
> The real problem is that infrastructure code like MSI should not hold 
> locks across calls to consumer code.  That's what needs to be fixed, not
> hacks to WITNESS.

Actually, I think nobody proposed to hack WITNESS, mine was just a 
question about a related topic.
I'm still trying to figure out why msi currently uses an sx (I suspect 
there are some sleeping point).

Attilio
Received on Fri May 04 2007 - 18:15:18 UTC

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