Hello, This patch appears to have cured the sometimes BSOD on power-down. After 53 uninstalls I have yet to witness a BSOD!! There was a similar patch to winverbs (paged vs. non-paged PNP struct allocation) which also cured a power-down BSOD, so it's not too surprising this patch has the same effect. I will be including it in the WinOF 2.1 release (upcoming RC5).
stan. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Leonid Keller Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:15 AM To: ofw_list Subject: [ofw][patch][ibal] use non-pageable memory to prevent possible problems on power down IBAL uses pageable memory to create PnP context. It can create possible problems in power down flows at the time of system contention. We saw some similar case at a customer. There is no strong evidence that that is what influenced, but with this patch IBAL will be more safe and at no cost. Found by Hobin Lee (Xsigo). Index: kernel/al_pnp.c =================================================================== --- kernel/al_pnp.c (revision 2421) +++ kernel/al_pnp.c (working copy) @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ CL_ASSERT( p_reg ); /* No context exists for this port. Create one. */ - p_context = (al_pnp_context_t*)cl_pzalloc( sizeof(al_pnp_context_t) ); + p_context = (al_pnp_context_t*)cl_zalloc( sizeof(al_pnp_context_t) ); if( !p_context ) { AL_PRINT( TRACE_LEVEL_ERROR, AL_DBG_ERROR,
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