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Date:      Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:18:28 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>, Jake <jake@checker.org>, Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: softupdate panic, anyone seen this? (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902191314580.67530-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902191043.CAA31641@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     This may or may not be related.  In tracking down the sched_sync() 
>     panic I found two bugs.  
> 
>     First, a couple of places where the worklist was not being protected
>     at splbio().  I'm not 100% sure that this is a problem but the code
>     is complex enough that it's just too dangerous not to do it.
> 
>     Second, a double LIST_REMOVE() was being performed in the case where
>     VOP_FSYNC() would fail to sync all the dirty pages.  This can occur
>     legally for both NFS and filesystems with SOFTUPDATES set.
> 
>     I'd appreciate it if someone could verify the double LIST_REMOVE()
>     bug.  vn_syncer_add_to_worklist() already removes the vn from
>     the list ( assuming the VONWORKLIST v_flag is set, which it should be
>     in this case ).

Your fixes for both problems look fine to me.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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