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Date:      Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:34:25 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs (during reboot, several times)
Message-ID:  <19990121173424.V15785@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901210700.XAA10740@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:00:34PM -0800
References:  <199901210536.AAA08007@lor.watermarkgroup.com> <199901210700.XAA10740@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Wednesday, 20 January 1999 at 23:00:34 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>> Sorry, Matt, the patch in my previous email was fatally flawed. Try this one
>> below. The two printf() messages don't necessarily come out in pairs and
>> it's not just NFS bufs' B_CACHE bits are cleared, so my comment about
>> vm_page_is_valid() check in my previous message was wrong and the check is
>> needed here.
>>
>> -lq
>
>     Ok, I understand what you've done... you are effectively bypassing
>     having to check for B_DELWRI in bread(), breadn(), and nfs_bioread()
>     by forcing getblk() to handle the B_DELWRI condition.
>
>     Cool.  I'll replace my nfs_bioread() patch with this one and test it
>     before committing all this stuff to the -4.x branch ( which I will also
>     do sometime tonight ).
>
>     I am also CCing this to current so Greg and Andreas are kept abrest
>     of events.  I think this will fix *both* of their reported panics.

Not mine :-)  Mine was a bug in vinum which I had already fixed; I was
just concerned about whether it had shown its nose again.

Greg
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