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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:07:44 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.net>
Cc:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ichsmb(4) and msleep()
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 7:01 AM Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.net> wrote:

> Yuri Pankov wrote:
> > Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >> On 2019-08-28 11:44, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> >>> Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >>>> On 2019-08-28 11:07, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> >>>>> I have a "timed sleep before timers are working" panic in
> ichsmb_readb()
> >>>>> calling ichsmb_wait() which uses msleep().  That is trying to
> >>>>> jedec_dimm(4) module so it's trying to attach pretty early in boot.
> >>>>> What would be the correct replacement for msleep() here?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> If you only need a sleep-delay, pause() is the right one. It handles
> >>>> cold-boot.
> >>>
> >>> I guess that won't work here as we need to be waked up by interrupt
> >>> handler on command completion, and pause() seems to sleep
> >>> unconditionally for the given time in 'cold' case (if I'm reading the
> >>> code correctly).
> >>
> >> If you are too early inside a SYSINIT() path, then you cannot use
> >> sleeping. You will have to use polling in a loop with a fixed DELAY()
> to
> >> know the timeout.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > Something like the following (it seems to work)?
>
> Here's a review with the nit you mentioned fixed, thanks!
>
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21452



What's the advantages of doing this instead of deferring attach until the
interrupts are running?

Warner

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