From owner-cvs-all Tue Jun 4 15:35: 7 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C362637B405 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 15:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 32200 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2002 22:35:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 4 Jun 2002 22:35:01 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g54MYxF54726; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 18:34:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020604152034.A12108@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 18:34:53 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mutex.c Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04-Jun-2002 David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 06:09:20PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> Not tested on Alpha SMP because SMP Alpha kernels aren't stable under >> load now. I've had various lockups or weird NULL pointer bugs (as if a >> thread variable passed down the stack suddenly became NULL) for a month >> or two now. SMP sparc64 doesn't boot atm, hence no testing on it. > > A month or two is a long time for such serious breakage to go unfixed. > You don't have any idea where this is happening? Getting down to only > pentiumpro and later SMP boxes working things have a good chance of going > out broken in 5.0-RELEASE. I'm not superhuman and have been busy doing other work-related stuff for a while now. Hopefully I can get some cycles to test why alpha SMP is hosed in the very near future. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message