On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 07:46:35AM +0000, David Holland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:37:00AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > > we've never had autoconfig run with the kernel lock AFAICT, so this > > > assumption has never been true. > > > > So this is a bug. The contract was really that spl-locked drivers would > > continue to work as is when fine-grained locking was introduced. > > I don't think it's reasonable to require every (but the few > > already MP-safe) drivers to take KERNEL_LOCK in their attach > > routine. > > So autoconf should check and take the kernel lock before calling the > attach routine of a non-MPSAFE driver. If it doesn't already do this, > it's wrong.
I agree :) > > Meanwhile, since scsipi is not MPSAFE, whoever is calling into scsipi > without taking the kernel lock first is wrong, so the change at the > beginning of this thread should be reverted. I also agree, in light of this discussion (I though that KERNEL_LOCK was not held while cold on purpose, but it seems that the issue is at another level, and more annoying). But I find it acceptable as an interim solution, it at last allows attaching scsi drivers that are probed at boot. > > (Furthermore, scsipi is itself wrong. It is a core component; it > should be MPSAFE.) I also agree. So should be ata, if_ethersubr, etc ... that's a lot of work. -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --