On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 15:26:41 +0200
Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> The attached patch converts sysmon_taskq.c and acpi_ec.c to use
> mutex(9)es and condvar(9)s.
> 
> acpica/OsdSynch.c has to use IPL_SCHED now, otherwise a LOCKDEBUG
> kernel will catch the error that a spin lock is held when calling the
> acpi_ec functions via AcpiOsQueueForExecution().
> 
> AFAIK, they must be spin locks because they might be called from
> interrupt context.
> 
> Let me know if this patch is correct. I've been using it since yesterday
> without any regression.
> 
> Also available at: http://www.netbsd.org/~xtraeme/smtaskq.diff

I have found some problems with this patch that I need to fix, please ignore
it for now.

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