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Date:      Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:38:02 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PREEMPTION vs ndisulator
Message-ID:  <200512161638.03037.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <17315.10532.603357.165238@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <17314.60552.595375.783753@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200512161454.22232.jhb@freebsd.org> <17315.10532.603357.165238@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Friday 16 December 2005 03:52 pm, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> John Baldwin writes:
>  > On Friday 16 December 2005 11:34 am, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>  > > I'm trying to use an ndis driver on an amd64 machine running
>  > > FreeBSD/amd64 -current from yesterday.  If I enable PREEMPTION, the
>  > > machine hangs when loading the driver (kldload never returns):
>  > >
>  > > ndis0: <Myricom Myri-10G Ethernet Adapter> mem
>  > > 0xfc000000-0xfcffffff,0xfdf00000-0xfdffffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on
>  > > pci5 ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
>  > > <hang>
>  > >
>  > > Witness detects no problems, and if I disable PREEMPTION, the driver
>  > > seems to work fine.  Is PREEMPTION not safe to be used with the
>  > > ndisulator, or is there a problem with the ndis driver itself?
>  > >
>  > > I've included some very brief debugging info below..
>  >
>  > Looks like an ithread has preempted your driver's start routine.  If you
>  > let it run some more and then break into ddb is the same thread (pid 11)
>  > still running?  Also, which process is pid 11?
>
> Naturally, I no longer have that kernel :(
>
> I just built a new, PREEMPTION enabled kernel.  Booting in
> single user,  I see a hang in the irq thread.  It seems to
> always be in this thread.
>
> I think the difference is that I don't have the if_sk driver loaded,
> which shares that irq.
>
> Can you remind me how to get irq counts from ddb?  It
> would be intersting to see if the irq hander was called
> repeatedly, or if it was just stuck in the handler.

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