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Date:      Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:11:35 +0900
From:      Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recent CURRENT/i386 + acpi_thermal panic
Message-ID:  <yge64tusafc.wl%ume@mahoroba.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050824210954.GA1046@gothmog.gr>
References:  <20050824163054.GA646@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <ygebr3njguv.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> <20050824210954.GA1046@gothmog.gr>

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Hi,

>>>>> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:09:54 +0300
>>>>> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> said:

keramida> On 2005-08-25 04:05, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:30:54 +0300
> >>>>> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> said:
>
> keramida> Recent CURRENT/i386 panics randomly at boot time at (manual copy of the
> keramida> console output, so there may be some errors in the numbers copied):
>
> keramida> msleep(c1a761d4,0,54,c0986ce0,0) at msleep+0x6e
> keramida> acpi_tz_cooling_thread(c1a76100,d5248d38,c1a76100,c09770bc,0 at acpi_tz_cooling_thread+0x58
>
> Umm, the fifth argument to msleep() is zero.  It means sc->tz_zone.tsp
> is zero.  But, it is tested not to zero before invoking
> acpi_tz_cooling_thread().  Perhaps, it is cleared some where later.

keramida> The panic message, which I failed to copy was "sleeping without a mutex".

Okay, the message is out when timo is zero.

keramida> Thanks for the quick reply.  I'll give a try to your patch tomorrow
keramida> morning, when I have access to that machine again.

You are welcome.
Perhaps, I found the cause.  sc->tz_zone is initialized before each
retrieval of new value from BIOS.  It makes the period where
sc->tz_zone.tsp is zero.
Please try following patch, instead:

Index: sys/dev/acpica/acpi_thermal.c
diff -u -p sys/dev/acpica/acpi_thermal.c.orig sys/dev/acpica/acpi_thermal.c
--- sys/dev/acpica/acpi_thermal.c.orig	Mon Aug 22 15:25:16 2005
+++ sys/dev/acpica/acpi_thermal.c	Thu Aug 25 16:46:15 2005
@@ -347,7 +347,14 @@ acpi_tz_establish(struct acpi_tz_softc *
 	    AcpiOsFree(sc->tz_zone.al[i].Pointer);
     if (sc->tz_zone.psl.Pointer != NULL)
 	AcpiOsFree(sc->tz_zone.psl.Pointer);
-    bzero(&sc->tz_zone, sizeof(sc->tz_zone));
+
+    /*
+     * XXX: We initialize only ACPI_BUFFER to avoid race condition
+     * with passive cooling thread which refers psv, tc1, tc2 and tsp.
+     */
+    bzero(sc->tz_zone.ac, sizeof(sc->tz_zone.ac));
+    bzero(sc->tz_zone.al, sizeof(sc->tz_zone.al));
+    bzero(&sc->tz_zone.psl, sizeof(sc->tz_zone.psl));
 
     /* Evaluate thermal zone parameters. */
     for (i = 0; i < TZ_NUMLEVELS; i++) {


Sincerely,

--
Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
ume@mahoroba.org  ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org
http://www.imasy.org/~ume/



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