Re: cs(4) MPSAFE patch

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:26:28 -0400
On Wednesday 04 June 2008 03:12:15 am M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20080604.001253.1683325662.imp_at_bsdimp.com>
>             "M. Warner Losh" <imp_at_bsdimp.com> writes:
> : In message: <200805281715.39536.jhb_at_freebsd.org>
> :             John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> writes:
> : : I have a patch to make cs(4) MPSAFE.  As with previous patches, 
ENOHARDWARE.  
> : : If you care about this driver, test the patch.
> : : 
> : : http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/cs.patch
> : 
> : This patch appears to work for me, but I've not stress tested the
> : interface.
> : 
> : I did have to make a bunch of other changes to the driver to fix some
> : obvious bogons that got in my way.  These bogons are in the cs driver,
> : not in your patches to the cs driver.  I'm flushing those into svn and
> : looping back the changes plus your patches to make sure things still
> : work.  I'll report more when I know more.  Note: this is PCMCIA card
> : only (IBM EtherJet Ethernet PC Card).
> : 
> : I can confirm that your patch still applies after my changes, although
> : with a fuzz factor.
> 
> Upon further testing, I've discovered that the driver neglects to tear
> down the ISR.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/cs.patch.new
> 
> fixes the problem, but may also have some stray goo in it too.

I've updated cs.patch, I just put the teardown in detach as that is the only 
place it is needed (other drivers are similar).  Also, I broke the watchdog 
timer in the patch you have, so you may want to fetch the updated patch for 
that.  Thanks for testing this.

-- 
John Baldwin
Received on Wed Jun 04 2008 - 16:14:35 UTC

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