[PATCH] OsdSynch.c modernization

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Tuesday 25 September 2007 03:38 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Monday 24 September 2007 01:03 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > > (At least on my laptop) I found the malloc() was called from
> > > our code, i.e., AcpiOsExecute() from OsdSched.c.  I'll try
> > > something shortly cause I was going to rewrite the file anyway.
> >
> > Yep, that's because we need a task structure that's different for
> > each call and acpi-ca doesn't like the "pending" argument (see
> > OsdSchedule.c).  One fix for this is to just use a hack and cast
> > the fn to discard the extra arg.  Not sure this would work.
>
> I quickly tested it but didn't work. :-(
>
> Actually it is not just pending argument but struct task itself has
> to be allocated.  I did crude hack to see if it is possible to have
> it working with spin mutex gracefully.  It can be done if we
> pre-allocate some space for the tasks and use fast taskqueue.  Does
> it make sense to you?

FYI, here is the hack:

http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/acpica/Osd.diff

Jung-uk Kim