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Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:36:55 +0200
From:      Fredrik Lindberg <fli@shapeshifter.se>
To:        "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Panic with vboxnet drivers
Message-ID:  <4AC2EE77.4090509@shapeshifter.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909282037290.1735@thor.farley.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909221337580.13791@thor.farley.org> <4AC120F6.7090701@shapeshifter.se> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909282037290.1735@thor.farley.org>

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Sean C. Farley wrote:
>>> 2. The next three logs are LOR's (sleepable after non-sleepable)
>>>    concerning VirtualBox's "IPRT Fast Mutex Semaphore" which is an
>>>    sx.  I am not sure I am reading the backtrace correctly.  It looks
>>>    like the call to RTSemFastMutexRequest(), which calls sx_xlock(),
>>>    is the effect.  I just do not know where the cause, i.e.,
>>>    RTSemFastMutexRequest(), is being called.
>>
>> Yeah, this was a real one. The call to RTSemFastMutexRequest is inside 
>> the virtual ethernet switch.  I've attached a patch that defers 
>> processing to avoid the sleepable after non-sleepable case.  Hopefully 
>> this fixes the panic you're seeing as well.
> 
> Thank you!  :)  This does fix the panic.
> 

Great, I'll submit it upstreams as soon as possible.

Fredrik




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