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Date:      Sun, 4 Sep 2011 15:09:17 +0200
From:      Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r225372 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <CAJ-FndDa=xmvrcn9CdgMvDZ_vG3pjUdFqLH=Q%2BVK%2BSWjvGFO9g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201109041307.p84D72GY092462@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201109041307.p84D72GY092462@svn.freebsd.org>

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2011/9/4 Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>:
> Author: attilio
> Date: Sun Sep =C2=A04 13:07:02 2011
> New Revision: 225372
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225372
>
> Log:
> =C2=A0Interrupts are disabled/enabled when entering and exiting the KDB c=
ontext.
> =C2=A0While this is generally good, it brings along a serie of problems,
> =C2=A0like clocks going off sync and in presence of SW_WATCHDOG, watchdog=
s
> =C2=A0firing without a good reason (missed hardclock wdog ticks update).

Also please notice that intr enable/disable happens in the wrong way
as it is done via the MD (x86 specific likely) interface. This is
wrong for 2 reasons:
1) There may be some codepaths leading to explicit preemption
2) It should  really use an MI interface

The right way to do this should be via spinlock_enter().

Attilio


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