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Date:      Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:15:36 -0800
From:      Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com>
To:        Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
Cc:        freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org, bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/118093: firewire bus reset hogs CPU, causing data to be lost
Message-ID:  <4957FA88.1000604@miralink.com>
In-Reply-To: <200812260623.GAA20643@sopwith.solgatos.com>
References:  <200812260623.GAA20643@sopwith.solgatos.com>

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Dieter wrote:
>>> I confirmed that spl's are complete no-ops since rel 5.  So, you want 
>>> to ignore
>>> them as they are just markers now where locking should be implemented.
>>>       
>
> I hunted down the spl code, and you're right.  Wow, I wonder how drivers
> still using spl calls work at all?
>
>   
I believe that the spl() calls are just left there as a hint where 
locking should be.

As far as I understand, we need to pay attention to the mutex locks.
>> is to real behavior, but /var/log/messages has a tendency to get garbled 
>> like this:
>>
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: fwohci1: Initiate bus reset
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: fwohci1: BUS reset
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: fwohci1: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=8, 
>> CYCLEMASTER mode
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: firewi
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: re1:
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: 1 n
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: odes
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: , ma
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: xhop
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: <=
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: 0, c
>> Dec 22 16:00:18 home-test kernel: able
>>     
>
> Do the lines get folded on the console, or only in /var/log/messages?
>   

As far as I can see, the console messages are fine.  It's only the 
messages that get
garbled.

Sean



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