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Date:      Wed, 11 May 2005 16:15:46 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Panic, 'giant not owned' kern_mutex.c:299
Message-ID:  <4281A312.2010808@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <p0621020bbea6c8ec4db8@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <p06210208bea6bb371756@[128.113.24.47]> <20050510193922.GA34057@ns1.xcllnt.net> <p0621020bbea6c8ec4db8@[128.113.24.47]>

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>> This is the exact same thing I ran into on ia64. The problem appears
>> to be the default setting of the debug.mpsafevm tunable. If you set
>> it to 1 in the loader the problem is resolved, although you might
>> run into other issues. grehan@ is onto it, so you can also wait for
>> his commit and/or suggestion.
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.  I think I'll wait for an official fix,
> just to be on the safe side.  Seems a little odd that this 'mpsafe'
> issues would be popping up on a single-CPU system...

  I'm running a buildworld to see if inverting mpsafevm is OK.

  A pre-emptive UP kernel is isn't too far different from an MP system - 
it's still prone to locking issues and race conditions.

  BTW, should be getting the mini shortly !

later,

Peter.




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