Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 02:09:13 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Locking snafu in -current Message-ID: <324CEB39.41C67EA6@whistle.com> References: <324CDD35.167EB0E7@whistle.com>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> This seems to have been present for a long time..
looking at the hung process 447
sendmail 447 177 177 177 -1,-1 noflags -1,-1 0,369364 2,336634 lockf 0 0
we see it is waiting on a lock structure.. (lockf lock string)
in the proc structure:
p_wchan = 0xf0ae58c0,
p_wmesg = 0xf01e17d4 "lockf",
print *(struct lockf *) 0xf0ae58c0 yields
$20 = {
lf_flags = 48,
lf_type = 3,
lf_start = 0x0000000000000000,
lf_end = 0xffffffffffffffff,
lf_id = 0xf0ad0cc0 "\200^\n@\001",
lf_head = 0xf0a9d530,
lf_next = 0xf0a9f900,
lf_block = 0xf0ad8080
}
following lf_head yields:
$21 = (struct lockf *) 0xf0a9f900
which is the same as "lf_next" (?)
but backtracking through the "lf_block yields:
(in sequence)
lf_head = 0xf0a9d530,
lf_next = 0xf0a9f900,
lf_block = 0xf0aebf00
lf_head = 0xf0a9d530,
lf_next = 0xf0a9f900,
lf_block = 0xf0af4940
lf_head = 0xf0a9d530,
lf_next = 0xf0a9f900,
lf_block = 0xf0af4100
lf_head = 0xf0a9d530,
lf_next = 0xf0a9f900,
lf_block = 0xf0af9c00
lf_head = 0xf0a9d530,
lf_next = 0xf0a9f900,
lf_block = 0xf0af9640
lf_head = 0xf0a9d530,
lf_next = 0xf0a9f900,
lf_block = 0xf0afcc00
lf_head = 0xf0a9d530,
lf_next = 0xf0a9f900,
lf_block = 0xf0afcd40
$29 = {
lf_flags = 48,
lf_type = 3,
lf_start = 0x0000000000000000,
lf_end = 0xffffffffffffffff,
lf_id = 0xf0afca00 "",
lf_head = 0xf0a9d530,
lf_next = 0xf0a9f900,
lf_block = 0x0
}
Now we have reached the head of the locking chain..
now we notice that ALL of these lock structures are pointing to
lf_next = 0xf0a9f900,
which is where the original 'head' was pointing.
If we take the hint and go there.. we see:
$30 = {
lf_flags = 48,
lf_type = 3,
lf_start = 0x0000000000000000,
lf_end = 0xffffffffffffffff,
lf_id = 0xf0a9fb80 "\200",
lf_head = 0xf0a9d530,
lf_next = 0x0,
lf_block = 0xf0a9f200
}
so if we start at the head, there is no forward pointer to all those
lock structures we back-tracked through..
This is all very confusing as the lf_id is different
for all these as well.
it doesn't make sense to me..
if anyone has a suggestion as to what to
look at next, I'll leave the machine inthe debugger
and can look at snything over the weekend....
there's deffinitly a bug, but I don't know what.
possibly it's in sendmail, but.. who knows.
julian
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