Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:10:11 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lockmgr panic Message-ID: <19971016201011.KQ06713@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971016000913.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>; from Simon Shapiro on Oct 16, 1997 00:09:13 -0700 References: <199710160509.PAA08005@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <XFMail.971016000913.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
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As Simon Shapiro wrote: > > I think it substitutes panics with deadlock possibilities. Perhaps > > the deadlocks are rare. > > Nope. Easy to do. Sometimes during boot. Huh? Are you in a different movie, Simon? I was talking about Mr. KATO's fix for the recursive lock in the vn(4) device. His fix was only applied to /sys/dev/vn.c, so unless you are booting off a vn disk :-), i can't see where this is applicable to your description. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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