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Date:      Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:20:16 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r339582 - head/sys/dev/sound/midi
Message-ID:  <20181022102016.GO5335@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <cc0210c5-99c7-1153-0b32-4cfdc576970a@selasky.org>
References:  <201810220858.w9M8wSBZ039042@repo.freebsd.org> <20181022095131.GN5335@kib.kiev.ua> <cc0210c5-99c7-1153-0b32-4cfdc576970a@selasky.org>

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On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:09:54PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 10/22/18 11:51 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 08:58:28AM +0000, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >> Author: hselasky
> >> Date: Mon Oct 22 08:58:27 2018
> >> New Revision: 339582
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/339582
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>    Drop sequencer mutex around uiomove() and make sure we don't move more bytes
> >>    than is available, else a panic might happen.
> > And why it is safe to drop the mutex ?
> > If it is safe to drop, why do you need the mutex at all ?
> > 
> 
> The seq mutex protects the queue state, which is entirely computed prior 
> or after uiomove().

Then why do you need to re-acquire the mutex after uiomove ?



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