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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:05:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Jake Burkholder <jburkhol@home.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: when is it safe to call msleep? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010131004210.3882-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001013004626.978DFBA76@io.yi.org>

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Well, no panics, but it made the i386 like the alpha (freezes up in the middle
of probing) on my 2xPPro.

-matt


> > 
> > I've been fooling around with the new lock stuff and trying to convert things
> > over, and I called msleep with an initialized MTX_DEF lock held (on my
> > pc164) during probes, but I got a panic:
> > 
> 
> Hmm.  I don't know about the panic, but the releasing of the mutex
> is probably in the wrong place if its going to be called early in
> boot, when cold is true.
> 
> Could you try this:
> 
> 
> Jake
> 



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