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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:32:59 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r233249 - head/sys/amd64/acpica
Message-ID:  <4F6AF1CB.80902@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201203211502.14353.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201203202037.q2KKbNfK037014@svn.freebsd.org> <201203211341.11859.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <4F6A1673.4050408@FreeBSD.org> <201203211502.14353.jkim@FreeBSD.org>

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on 21/03/2012 21:02 Jung-uk Kim said the following:
> On Wednesday 21 March 2012 01:57 pm, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 21/03/2012 19:41 Jung-uk Kim said the following:
>>> I am well aware of the problem.  In fact, that's why I had to
>>> merge ACPICA 20120320 rather quickly, which added a new flag to
>>> not execute _GTS method.  Both _GTS and _BFS are turned off by
>>> default.  You can control them with a new tunable
>>> "debug.acpi.sleep_flags" if you want.
>>
>> But the bug still has to be fixed, right?
>> Even if it takes a non-default sysctl value to give the bug a
>> chance.
> 
> Ideally, yes.  However, I am not so sure if we can call it a "bug" 
> because AcpiEnterSleepState() must be called with interrupt disabled 
> and there is no way to change that API without breaking other OSes.  
> We can only work around it locally or persuade upstream to find a 
> better way to do this in ACPICA itself.  Either way, it will be 
> pretty hackish. :-(

I see.  Thank you.
Maybe the code could be somehow tricked into using M_NOWAIT in this context...

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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