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Date:      Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:09:50 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SP Patchset #1 up
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006212159260.4214-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200006210741.AAA91331@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     I hacked the syscons spl's to pieces, they are almost certainly
>     not completely correct but probably not any worse then they were
>     before (all those spltty's were useless for the most part since
>     SIO uses a fast interrupt which ignores cpl protection already).

These were more or less correct, and unrelated to sio.

Note that the low level console drivers must not use any locks or switch
context, since they need to work in debugger traps which may occur with
locks in any state.  Old reentrancy bugs in syscons will probably be
more obvious now.  

Bruce



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