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Date:      Sun, 03 Jul 2005 10:38:58 +0200
From:      Philippe PEGON <Philippe.Pegon@crc.u-strasbg.fr>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Today's RELENG_5_4 and 'lock cmpxchgl'
Message-ID:  <42C7A422.30709@crc.u-strasbg.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20050701182946.GA99767@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20050701101458.GA1193@stack.nl> <20050701104139.GB1193@stack.nl>	<20050701130335.GA2040@stack.nl> <20050701182946.GA99767@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:03:35PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:41:39PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:14:58PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
>>>
>>>>Somehow, this sounds familiar, i.e.: the "lock cmpxchgl":
>>>>
>>>>Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>>>
>>>...
>>>
>>>>Stopped at      0xc05160c3 = knote+0x27:        lock cmpxchgl   %ecx,0x1c(%edx)
>>>
>>>Somehow I think I solved this last time by activating 'INVARIANTS'...
>>>I'll try that now.
>>
>>Let's paraphrase:
>>
>>I think i solved this last time by activating 'INVARIANTS'...
>>
>>Anyway, tried that and yes, it didn't crash in the last few hours, so I
>>guess it works. Without INVARIANTS, it crashed within seconds.
>>
>>On the downside, my Gigabit performance dropped from 99 MB/sec to 80
>>MB/sec because of INVARIANTS.
> 
> 
> The panic appears to be an instance of a known bug in 5.4 (and
> INVARIANTS will not fix it, but may just delay the inevitable by
> changing timings).  See Doug White's recent emails which point to a
> patch you should test.

If you think about this mail :

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2005-June/016165.html

and follow the thread, you will see that this patch doesn't solve the problem.
The last mail which I can see from doug white about this problem is :

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2005-June/016495.html

for the moment, it seems that there is no solution for 5.x

> 
> Kris

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Philippe PEGON



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