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author | jhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-08-07 21:00:13 +0000 |
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committer | jhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-08-07 21:00:13 +0000 |
commit | e306c86e1b6376905ae8d21091509cbe1f61fba8 (patch) | |
tree | 5341583d2eecb5e89baa3cba762d2f3739e4856a /share/man/man9/sleep.9 | |
parent | 9f16e510b9a765d8caed7f31ebaf16b600540db4 (diff) | |
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Permit Giant to be passed as the explicit interlock either to
msleep/mtx_sleep or the various cv_*wait*() routines. Currently, the
"unlock" behavior of PDROP and cv_wait_unlock() with Giant is not
permitted as it is will be confusing since Giant is fully unrecursed and
unlocked during a thread sleep.
This is handy for subsystems which wish to allow unlocked drivers to
continue to use Giant such as CAM, the new TTY layer, and the new USB
stack. CAM currently uses a hack that I told Scott to use because I
really didn't want to permit this behavior, and the TTY and USB patches
both have various patches to permit this.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man9/sleep.9')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/sleep.9 b/share/man/man9/sleep.9 index aa87642..a9f0873 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/sleep.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/sleep.9 @@ -157,6 +157,12 @@ mutex while the thread is suspended and will reacquire the .Va Giant mutex before the function returns. +Note that the +.Va Giant +mutex may be specified as the lock to drop. +In that case, however, the +.Dv PDROP +flag is not allowed. .Pp To avoid lost wakeups, either a lock should be used to protect against races, |