Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:09:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= <rene@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> Subject: Re: nvidia-driver crashing kernel on head Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007081304590.5061@yncgbc.qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <201007080826.32764.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201007021146.46542.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <AANLkTimT4UwDzB6jF2eML4U7jQubOs1slwBPHwy_5U3b@mail.gmail.com> <201007021855.42103.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <201007080826.32764.jhb@freebsd.org>
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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. Doug (not a mutex type of person) -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
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