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Date:      Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:33:12 +0200
From:      "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl>
To:        "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: spin lock sched lock held by 0xffffff007b712250 for > 5 seconds
Message-ID:  <0b8301c46b52$96931b50$471b3dd4@digiware.nl>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040716121933.4361A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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From: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org>
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> 
> > After todays kernelbuild the system seem to be a lot better...
> > It can take quite some buildworld abuse, but still:
> > 
> > spin lock sched lock held by 0xffffff007b712250 for > 5 seconds
> > panic: spin lock held too long
> > cpuid = 1;
> > KDB: enter: panic
> > 
> > But I'm not shure what I could/should do now, since the KDB
> > introduction.  Normally I'd expect to see:  db>
> 
> We have trouble entering the debugger when in a critical section/and or
> have sched_lock held -- I think this is because we try to halt the other
> CPUs and that gets nastily stuck in some form.  We need to fix this.
> 
> This could well be a symptom of some of the other hangs we've been seeing,
> and I've seen similar things on my test box with preemption enabled.

To be honest, it is a lot better than at the beginning of the week.
Anything I can do to help debug either of them??
Suggestions where/what to look for?

--WjW



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