Re: nvidia-driver crashing kernel on head

From: Rene Ladan <rene_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:52:10 +0200
On 08-07-2010 22:09, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> These freezes and panics are due to the driver using a spin mutex
>> instead of a
>> regular mutex for the per-file descriptor event_mtx.  If you patch the
>> driver
>> to change it to be a regular mutex I think that should fix the problems.
> 
> Can you give an example? :) I don't mind creating a patch for all of
> them if you can illustrate what needs to be changed.
> 
See the attached patch
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