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Date:      Sun, 7 Jul 2002 02:50:48 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: more on dumping
Message-ID:  <20020707024114.A5419-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <15654.65479.31155.182179@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> Julian Elischer writes:
>  > On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>  > > OK, current is really confusing me.  When we are panic'ing and syncing
>  > > disks, how are we supposed to come back to the current thread which
>  > > caused the dump after we do an mi_switch() to allow an interrupt
>  > > thread to run?
>  >
>  > It depends.
>  >
>  > the previous thread should have been put back onto the run queue
>  > before the interrupt thread was scheduled.
>
> Could it have anything to do with interrupt preemption being disabled on
> alpha & enabled on i386?

Very likely.

Bruce


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