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Date:      Thu, 21 May 2009 16:36:34 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r192535 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <20090521133634.GK1927@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <3bbf2fe10905210629p46c7a204v6863aaba77354462@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200905211322.n4LDM73t067924@svn.freebsd.org> <20090521132641.GJ1927@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <3bbf2fe10905210629p46c7a204v6863aaba77354462@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:29:57PM +0200, Attilio Rao wrote:
> 2009/5/21 Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>:
> > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:22:07PM +0000, Attilio Rao wrote:
> >> Author: attilio
> >> Date: Thu May 21 13:22:07 2009
> >> New Revision: 192535
> >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/192535
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>   Move the M_WAITOK flag in notify() into an M_NOWAIT one in order to =
match
> >>   the behaviour alredy present with the further malloc() call in
> >>   devctl_notify().
> >>   This fixes a bug in the CAM layer where the camisr handler finished =
to
> >>   call camperiphfree() (and subsequently destroy_dev() resulting in a =
new
> >>   dev notify) while the xpt lock is held.
> > This is wrong. You cannot call destroy_dev() while holding any mutex.
> > Taking this into account, it makes no sense to use M_NOWAIT in notify().
>=20
> As long as devctl_notify() also calls M_NOWAIT and if not available
> skips "silently" it just does the same thing, I think this approach is
> more consistent.
M_NOWAIT currently uses system reserve for page allocation,
so less it is used, the better.

>=20
> It remains, though, the fact to fix CAM when calling destroy_dev().
> Maybe we should add a witness_warn() there?

Destroy_dev already has the warning, see line 853.

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