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Date:      Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:07:11 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: need some debugging help 
Message-ID:  <29645.1062407231@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:48:41 MDT." <20030901064840.GA61253@panzer.kdm.org> 

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In message <20030901064840.GA61253@panzer.kdm.org>, "Kenneth D. Merry" writes:

>In particular, I went through some interesting permutations in
>taskqueue_kthread() to make things work right:
>
> - I tried holding Giant when calling tsleep, but it complained that I
>   didn't own Giant.

I have had a similar issue a couple of places in the giant/no-giant
shims for GEOM.  I found one convenient trick was to sleep with a
timeout instead.  It's not beautiful but it works.

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