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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:05:23 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Panic on boot with April 16 src (lengthy info attached)
Message-ID:  <20070417220339.E2913@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070417181627.GA1225@seekingfire.com>
References:  <20070417153357.GA1335@seekingfire.com> <20070417173005.O42234@fledge.watson.org> <20070417181627.GA1225@seekingfire.com>

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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Tillman Hodgson wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:32:32PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
>
>> There's quite a bit of stuff in here, but I can speak to this one: Andre's 
>> recent TCP timer change causes TCP to run without Giant when 
>> debug.mpsafenet=0.  This leads to panics with INVARIANTS, and non-MPSAFE 
>> code running without Giant otherwise.
>
> Thanks Robert, that did indeed let me boot. I appreciate your help :-)
>
> I originally put it in there to work around a LOR that I was experiencing 
> (based on you mentioning it in an email to current@ Sun 18 Mar 2007 15:50). 
> http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor/191.html doesn't show any changes to 
> that particular LOR, do you happen to know if there's any ongoing work on 
> this? I'm very willing to act as a test system.

I chatted with Andre about the panic earlier this afternoon, and it sounds 
like the fix is straight forward.  I would anticipate seeing it committed in 
the near future.

I'll send out an e-mail explaining the above lock order reversal tomorrow 
morning.  I understand that several people have been looking at this, so 
perhaps one of those people will reply talking about it before then. :-)

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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