From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 29 23:46:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B133315268 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 23:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA27377; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:16:34 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA77018; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:16:33 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:16:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Bernd Walter , Mike Smith , Parag Patel , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-CURRENT SMP crash with vinum raid-5 and softupdates Message-ID: <19990830161633.J13904@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199908292224.PAA15435@dingo.cdrom.com> <199908292348.QAA07774@apollo.backplane.com> <19990830075311.A30271@cicely8.cicely.de> <199908300559.WAA09987@apollo.backplane.com> <19990830160155.G13904@freebie.lemis.com> <199908300636.XAA10399@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908300636.XAA10399@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 11:36:24PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 29 August 1999 at 23:36:24 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: >>>> }, >>>> b_vnbufs = { >>>> ... >>>> (kgdb) >>> >>> This is definitely a pbuf. >> >> What's a pbuf? > > Sorry, it isn't a pbuf. OK. But what is a pbuf? I've never heard that term before. > Hmm. You are allocating and initializing a struct buf yourself? Yup. I need more information in the header, and at the time I did it I was told the b_driver* fields would go away. > That could cause long term problems but is neither here nor > there at the moment, we'll deal with it later. I discussed it with Kirk, who wasn't too concerned. Do you have other issues? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message