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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:51:50 -0800
From:      Artem Belevich <fbsdlist@src.cx>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: dtrace/cyclic deadlock
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimpveRPuK6AF4ep7mqFn5ZWOdjmiAfz1tnXoC30@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CF02B23.7050508@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> on 26/11/2010 21:10 Artem Belevich said the following:
>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> I will appreciate reviews and testing.
>>>
>>> Should I wait for any pending comments?
>>> Otherwise I am confident enough in the patch to commit it.
>>
>> Some time back I used to have reproducible crash related to dtrace/cyclic:
>> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2008-10/msg00449.html
>>
>> If you can wait until Tuesday, I'll try to check if the problem is
>> still reproducible and whether your patch fixes it.
>
> Artem,
>
> thanks a lot!
> I am sure in no hurry and I will appreciate your testing!
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon
>

Andriy,

I was able to reproduce the deadlock with hotkernel during buildworld
after only few attempts.

After applying your patch on top of stable/8 r215749 the deadlock
appears to be gone.

--Artem



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