Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:13:12 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lockmgr panic Message-ID: <19971016201312.IG17056@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199710160509.PAA08005@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Oct 16, 1997 15:09:25 %2B1000 References: <199710160509.PAA08005@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > >Speaking of bandaids, would anybody mind me committing Mr. KATO's > >fix/hack? (Of course, unless he's going to commit it himself.) The > >patch seems to solve the vn(4) lockmgr problem. > > I think it substitutes panics with deadlock possibilities. Perhaps > the deadlocks are rare. Where do you think the deadlock might happen? I don't pretend to understand the full details of the entire vn access, but from a cursory review, i fail to see the deadlock danger. -- 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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