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From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
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Subject: Re: testers needed for CAM INVARIANTS fix
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Hi Ken,

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, 16:13-0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

>
> I've got a fix for the panic from the cd(4)/da(4) drivers when INVARIANTS
> is turned on in -stable.
>
> The fix is to create a task queue that runs in a thread context and use
> that to create the sysctl variables needed by cd(4) and da(4).  The
> eventual fix will be to move the CAM transport layer probe code into a
> kernel thread.
>
> Anyway, these patches work for me, but if I could get some feedback from
> people running with INVARIANTS turned on in -stable, I'd appreciate it.
>
> If it seems to work for people, I'll talk to re@ about getting this in
> before 4.9 goes out the door.

It seems it works.  I am running my usuall stress tests now, thanks a
lot.  patch(1)-friendly diff is there:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~maxim/diff/cam.sysctl.stable.20030901

-- 
Maxim Konovalov, maxim@macomnet.ru, maxim@FreeBSD.org