Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 08:10:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Tor.Egge@cvsup.no.freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/51964: panic: race condition with realitexpire() called for zombie Message-ID: <200305211510.h4LFAEC6016849@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/51964; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tor.Egge@cvsup.no.freebsd.org To: jilles@stack.nl Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/51964: panic: race condition with realitexpire() called for zombie Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 15:06:18 GMT > The system has not panicked since I upgraded and applied the patch > (about 8 days ago), so it seems to be fixed. The X server has been > started and shut down many times (we use X -once -query ...). The patch > should perhaps be committed. I've been told that a hopefully better fix (without overhead in the common case) is being worked on. > The race condition (when callout_stop() is called, another thread may > still be executing in the callout function) may be present in other > parts of the system as well. Correct. - Tor Egge
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