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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:23:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_mbuf.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010123092312.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010123150639.A50085@myhakas.matti.ee>

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On 23-Jan-01 Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:37:05PM -0500, Bosko Milekic
> <bmilekic@technokratis.com> wrote:
> 
>> The discussed situation was probably a lock order reversal w.r.t. Giant and
>> some driver lock (in an MP safe driver). In one case, as you mentionned,
>> Giant can be acquired before the driver lock (the ifconfig case you spoke
>> of,
>> when the call is originating from a system call), but in the interrupt case,
>> the driver lock would be acquired first, followed by Giant in the allocation
>> routines.
> 
> Sorry for disturbing this highly technical discussion, but all that
> reminds me of some occasional kernel messages I've seen:
> 
> Jan 19 07:53:05 myhakas /boot/smpkernel/kernel: lock order reversal
> Jan 19 07:53:05 myhakas /boot/smpkernel/kernel: 1st fxp0 last acquired @
> ../../pci/if_fxp.c:842
> Jan 19 07:53:05 myhakas /boot/smpkernel/kernel: 2nd 0xc0f50520 fxp1 @
> ../../pci/if_fxp.c:993
> Jan 19 07:53:05 myhakas /boot/smpkernel/kernel: 3rd 0xc0f50920 fxp0 @
> ../../pci/if_fxp.c:842
> 
> I have two fxp and one ed (ne-2000 PCI clone) interfaces and bridge
> defined. Those messages appear almost always in sync with traffic
> over bridge interface(s). Is it something to care about?

No, this is a bug in witness sort of.  Or rather, I gave Bill Paul bad advice
on naming device driver mutexes.  Just ignore it for now.

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