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Date:      Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:18:46 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Fatal LOR: PV ENTRY (UMA zone) @ /home2/src/sys/vm/uma_core.c:2033
Message-ID:  <200407272318.46256.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040727184919.3788J-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040727184919.3788J-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Tuesday 27 July 2004 06:51 pm, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> > Running on amd64:
>
> <snip>
> <unsnip>
>
> > And right followed by....
> >
> > panic: lock (sleep mutex) Giant not locked @
> > /home2/src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c: 959
> > cpuid = 0;
> > KDB: stack backtrace:
> > kdb_backtrace() at kdb_backtrace+0x34
> > panic() at panic+0x1d2
> > witness_unlock() at witness_unlock+0xdd
> > _mtx_unlock_flags() at _mtx_unlock_flags+0x68
> > kern_open() at kern_open+0x128
> > open() at open+0x18
> > syscall() at syscall+0x330
> > Xfast_syscall() at Xfast_syscall+0xa8
> > --- syscall (5, FreeBSD ELF64, open), rip = 0x76d75c, rsp =
> > 0x7fffffffe088, rbp = 0x7fffffffe0c0 ---
> > KDB: enter: panic
> > [thread 100316]
> > Stopped at      kdb_enter+0x2e: nop
>
> I've seen several reports of "mysterious" panics where Giant isn't held on
> return from namei() or other points following a name lookup.  Kris
> Kenneway reported this on the package build cluster, for example.  I'm
> wondering if something handling a page fault hit by namei() during a
> string copy in from user space if resulting in Giant not being held where
> it should be.  In Kris's case, we tried pushing around GIANT_REQUIRED some
> because I thought maybe the caller wasn't holding Giant when it should,
> but that turned out not to be it.  So maybe we have some sort of
> preemption/VM/locking issue?

The preemption case is very easy to test, just turn it off in machine/param.h 
and see if it goes away.

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