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Date:      Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:45:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Subject:   Re: -current lockups
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010731084519.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010730222040.Y87252-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>

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On 31-Jul-01 Vincent Poy wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> On 30-Jul-01 Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:38:47 MST, "David O'Brien" wrote:
>> >
>> >> However, those boxes were panicing often before I made that statement.
>> >> So I still believe current is now in better shape than it was in June.
>> >
>> > I'll be a lot happier when I can enabled DDB_UNATTENDED and do whatever
>> > it is that causes my panic of the day and actually get a crashdump
>> > instead of
>> >
>> >       panic: witness_restore: lock (sleep mutex) Giant not locked
>>
>> This is a different one.  Is this during the dump itself?  That I can try to
>> work on.  (Basically, I need to make witness just stop doing all of its
>> various
>> checks if panicstr != NULL).
> 
>       I'm getting the following lock order reversal for any -current
> since July 19, 2001 including today and it just hangs solid after this, no
> db> prompt or anything...  It only happens after passwd or chpass
> successfully rebuilds the database, vipw works fine.
> 
> root@pele [9:29pm][/usr/temp] >>
> Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: lock order reversal
> Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: lock order reversal
> Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: 1st 0xd92fea9c process lock @
> /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_glue.c:469
> Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: 1st 0xd92fea9c process lock @
> /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_glue.c:469
> Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: 2nd 0xc118dfb0 lockmgr interlock
> @ /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_lock.c:239
> Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: 2nd 0xc118dfb0 lockmgr interlock
> @ /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_lock.c:239

This is due to the way that lockmgr locks are implemented unfortunately, and
will be fixed when vm maps switch to sx locks instead of lockmgr locks.

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