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Date:      Fri, 9 May 2008 09:50:28 +0100
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org>
To:        paul.koch@statseeker.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: flock incorrectly detects deadlock on 7-stable and current
Message-ID:  <62B7297F-8795-456F-8611-40658DF327FB@rabson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200805091607.23035.paul.koch@statseeker.com>
References:  <200805081812.24692.paul.koch@statseeker.com> <1B6FCF23-413B-452A-B66D-3CCD6257F7BD@rabson.org> <200805091607.23035.paul.koch@statseeker.com>

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On 9 May 2008, at 07:07, Paul Koch wrote:

> On Thu, 8 May 2008 06:37:00 pm Doug Rabson wrote:
>>
>>
>> Could you possibly try this patch and tell me if it helps:
>> ...
>>
> Manually applied the patch to stable kern_lockf.c  1.57.2.1.  Ran the
> flock_test program on many of our architectures and it works fine.
>
> Have also been testing our app on a single core i386 machine today  
> with
> no locking problems.  Just setup a quad core -stable amd64 build and  
> it
> also appears to be running fine now.

Thanks for that. I'll get the patch committed to current today - it  
will turn up in 7-stable in a couple of days.




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