On Tuesday 20 December 2011 14:08:24 Andriy Gapon wrote: > 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. > > 2. As discussed before: > if (!mutex_owned(&Giant)) > mutex_lock(&Giant) > this pattern does not make sense, because the Giant is recursive and can be > simply acquired without any check. > > Do you agree?
Yes! --HPS _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
