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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:19:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   driver attach/detach functions
Message-ID:  <20020829121303.F381-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de>

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Hi,

while trying to get rid of 'could sleep with mutex' messages a question
occured to me: is there any global mechanism that ensures that no two
threads enter the interface attach/detach functions at the same time?
If there is, there should be a hint in driver(9) probably. If there isn't
what is the canonical way to implement an MP-safe attach function? Some
drivers use

foo_attach(...)
{
	mtx_init(&sc->mtx, ...
	mtx_lock(&sc->mtx);
...

but this really doesn't help.

Regards,
harti
-- 
harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private
              brandt@fokus.gmd.de, brandt@fokus.fhg.de


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