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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:00:59 +0300
From:      Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.net>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ichsmb(4) and msleep()
Message-ID:  <1f91f7a6-050d-d690-d374-6b06950d2ce2@yuripv.net>
In-Reply-To: <311a21e3-ed61-8679-b416-b2a4c255c6e7@yuripv.net>
References:  <7dfebbd3-85d6-c7b7-b83b-fae8b644649e@yuripv.net> <478965aa-5256-e356-5339-de6fb82c3459@selasky.org> <63daa36a-5c22-6b08-3cd7-562fa961ab61@yuripv.net> <7f6de96d-8b56-e242-8950-04a20b197bce@selasky.org> <311a21e3-ed61-8679-b416-b2a4c255c6e7@yuripv.net>

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Yuri Pankov wrote:
> Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> On 2019-08-28 11:44, Yuri Pankov wrote:
>>> Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>>> On 2019-08-28 11:07, Yuri Pankov wrote:
>>>>> I have a "timed sleep before timers are working" panic in ichsmb_readb()
>>>>> calling ichsmb_wait() which uses msleep().  That is trying to
>>>>> jedec_dimm(4) module so it's trying to attach pretty early in boot.
>>>>> What would be the correct replacement for msleep() here?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you only need a sleep-delay, pause() is the right one. It handles
>>>> cold-boot.
>>>
>>> I guess that won't work here as we need to be waked up by interrupt
>>> handler on command completion, and pause() seems to sleep
>>> unconditionally for the given time in 'cold' case (if I'm reading the
>>> code correctly).
>>
>> If you are too early inside a SYSINIT() path, then you cannot use 
>> sleeping. You will have to use polling in a loop with a fixed DELAY() to 
>> know the timeout.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Something like the following (it seems to work)?

Here's a review with the nit you mentioned fixed, thanks!

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21452



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