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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:43:48 -0700
From:      Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Steven Hartland <steven@multiplay.co.uk>, stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: locks under printf(9) and WITNESS = panic?
Message-ID:  <CAJ-FndD2ePG1opX5ZYptePTtp40TvTGL=hu598RD4_L7DM=Efg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201307111621.41665.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <77F3F7FC35D843ADA82D54EF37249ED0@multiplay.co.uk> <201307111621.41665.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:21 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, June 29, 2013 9:19:24 pm Steven Hartland wrote:
>> when booting stable/9 under a debug kernel with WITNESS
>> enabled and verbose I get the following panic..
>>
>> It seems very much like the discussion from a year back on
>> current: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-
> January/031375.html
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Yeah, that lock needs to be MTX_RECURSE (the cnputs_mtx).  However, it
> only recurses under witness.  *sigh*

I have a patch to make mtx_lock_flags() to accept MTX_RECURSE. I will
commit it as long as all the consumers code will be reviewed which
should be any day.

Attilio


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