Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:28:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: rob@hudson-trading.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, mikep@hudson-trading.com, jason@hudson-trading.com Subject: Re: freebsd-5.4-stable panics Message-ID: <200510112228.j9BMSACh046318@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20051011150721.F49494@daemon.mistermishap.net>
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On 11 Oct, Rob Watt wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Rob Watt wrote: > >> Don, >> >> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Don Lewis wrote: >> >> > Both HEAD and RELENG_6 have been patched. I've tested the following >> > patch for RELENG_5 on a uniprocessor sparc64 box. I'd appreciate it if >> > anyone who was running into this problem on RELENG_5 with SMP hardare >> > could test it before I do the MFC. >> >> We have a machine running with those patches applied. We need to do some >> other tests on it today, but tonight we will run our threaded applications >> that trigger the kern_proc problem in top. We should have results tomorrow >> morning. > > Don, > > I had misunderstood what you had asked. I tested this on a 6.0 machine. I > could not crash an amd64 SMP box running 6.0-BETA5 with this patch. I do > not have a test box running RELENG_5 to try this patch on right now. If I > can setup a test box I will let you know our results, but that may take a > day or two. I MFC'ed the fix to RELENG_6 last week, but the patch didn't apply cleanly to RELENG_5. I tweaked the patch for RELENG_5 and tested it on a UP box. I'd like to get some testing on SMP hardware before I commit it to RELENG_5, just to make sure that I don't destabilize -STABLE. I do want to get the fix into RELENG_5, since this thread originated with a complaint about 5.4-STABLE.
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