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On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, John Baldwin wrote:

> These freezes and panics are due to the driver using a spin mutex instead of a
> regular mutex for the per-file descriptor event_mtx.  If you patch the driver
> to change it to be a regular mutex I think that should fix the problems.

Can you give an example? :) I don't mind creating a patch for all of 
them if you can illustrate what needs to be changed.


Doug (not a mutex type of person)

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