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Date:      Mon, 25 Jun 2018 06:30:20 -0400
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Steven Hartland <steven.hartland@multiplay.co.uk>, Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r335171 - head/sys/vm
Message-ID:  <20180625103020.GF1232@pesky>
In-Reply-To: <20180615110303.GN2493@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <201806141941.w5EJf2qa069373@repo.freebsd.org> <c241bd08-eb94-152e-c1f1-d77dc6987908@multiplay.co.uk> <F220E356-D55E-48B9-9AF0-ABBF41A74FC7@rice.edu> <603230da-cfe2-e3e2-bd9a-f5230b30e371@multiplay.co.uk> <20180615110303.GN2493@kib.kiev.ua>

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On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 02:03:03PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 11:03:06AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> > On 15/06/2018 00:07, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Jun 14, 2018, at 5:54 PM, Steven Hartland 
> > >> <steven.hartland@multiplay.co.uk 
> > >> <mailto:steven.hartland@multiplay.co.uk>> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Out of interest, how would this exhibit itself?
> > >>
> > >
> > > A panic in vm_page_insert_after().
> > >
> > So just to confirm this couldn't cause random memory corruption of the 
> > parent process?
> 
> No, or to put it more sincere, I highly doubt it.
> 
> Also, I do not think that this Go issue will be solved serendipitously
> by some FreeBSD bug fix.  So far it is indicative that either the
> situation is too unique for the Go runtime so it is not exposed by other
> programs (which is quite doubtful), or this is a bug in Go runtime.
> 
> The only way forward is to understand what exactly is broken for the
> situation.  This requires at least deep knowledge the Go garbage collector
> internal working, which itself supposes understanding of the Go runtime
> and Go environment.  I do not mean explanation of the assert, but the
> root cause that eventually triggers the assert.  They are somewhat
> disjoint in time, I believe.

Is this problem summarized anywhere?  In particular, is there a
reasonably minimal test case that reproduces the problem?



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