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Re: ahcisata & SPL NOT LOWERED ON EXIT messages



On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 03:31:37PM +0100, haad wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost> 
> wrote:
> >
> > I have an amd64 -current machine (dmesg attached) that frequently spew
> > tons of `SPL NOT LOWERED ON EXIT' message while trying to dump core on
> > kernel panic.
> >
> > I tracked it to ahcisata driver which has 2 panic(9) calls inside
> > splbio/splx block (ahci_exec_command() and ahci_atapi_scsipi_request()
> > functions). When panicing, the splx call is indeed missed ...
[...]
> Have you tried to add splx(s) just before panic call ? I had no time
> to check it but maybe if ata_c and sc_xfer don't need to be protected
> by spl you can move splx(s) just before those DIAGNOSTIC blocks.

No idea if it's safe or not ... And before doing some disasters with
the disks i prefer asking.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Projects and Developments in Bioinformatics
Institut Pasteur, Paris.


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