on 20/12/2011 16:00 Attilio Rao said the following: > 2011/12/20 Andriy Gapon <[email protected]>: >> >> I completing a patch that changes some locking in ukbd to account for >> SCHEDULER_STOPPED and for other realities of the code. >> >> As a preview I would like to share couple of observations that had their >> effect >> on the patch. >> >> 1. Acquiring Giant in device_attach, _detach in similar newbus method >> implementations should be redundant because those are already executed with >> Giant held. That's done either by the general newbus code or via >> usbd_enum_lock() when the operations are executed in the USB explore thread. > > That's right, however, if you plan to axe those because of the newbus > assumption I'd prefer you add a comment for every function you touch > saying that it needs to be Giant protected (in order to cope with them > once newbus is made MPSAFE).
I put mtx_assert there. I think that that should be sufficiently self-documenting and self-protecting too. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
