From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 18:24:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D475916A420 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:24:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF8E43D46 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:24:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E491A4E5C; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:24:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7BFF0528DF; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:24:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:24:03 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: David Kirchner Message-ID: <20060307182403.GA57199@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060303153833.Q557@10.0.0.1> <35c231bf0603071015r6277acdeva95b2f7699e24b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <35c231bf0603071015r6277acdeva95b2f7699e24b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Jeff Roberson , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VFS MFC testers wanted X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:24:05 -0000 --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:15:59AM -0800, David Kirchner wrote: > Do you have a list of the PRs that this affects and/or resolves? I don't know of any relevant PRs, but I haven't looked very hard. The bugs Jeff has been fixing are mostly those I've been able to reproduce myself in testing. > I'm curious, specifically, about kern/84589. I believe it may be > related to snapshots in some way, but I don't know. I'm not going to > be able to test the patch on these servers, unfortunately, as they're > fully in production now. The servers are stable now with > background_fsck=3D"NO", but "YES" is still the default (last I checked). You need to enable debugging, specifically KDB, DDB, INVARIANTS, INVARIANT_SUPPORT, DEBUG_LOCKS and DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS (ideally with the patch applied, as it gives more useful debugging). Then reproduce the deadlock condition, break to DDB and do 'show lockedvnods' and 'wh ' where are the processes listed as holding locks. > Also: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html >=20 > The todo page mentions deadlocks but doesn't link to any specific > PRs/threads that discuss them. Are these fixed with this MFC? Some deadlocks are resolved, yes. There are other snapshot-related deadlocks that are not fixed with this patch, but which Jeff and others are still working on. Kris --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEDc/DWry0BWjoQKURAuUGAJ9vJ4jGqj+5lopQpBAqnO76dSeT+gCgnhRs VGctBd64YwdIzILWJ+WKzDE= =yYCE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR--