Re: Native preemption is the culprit [was Re: today's CURRENT lockups]

From: Johan Pettersson <manlix_at_demonized.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:56:12 +0200
> It's not currently clear what the cause is -- reports suggest that
> it's an existing bug that's getting triggered by preemption, although
> I wouldn't rule out a bug in the preemption implementation itself. 
> I'm currently setting up a box with NMI to see if I can get some more
> useful information, as serial break isn't cutting it (suggesting a
> leaked spin lock or critical section).  I don't have an ETA, but I'm
> guessing that we'll have some sort of resolution in the next day or
> two.  If not, I guess we back out the change, or disable PREEMPTION by
> default.
> 
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert_at_fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee
> Research
> 

Okey... Im going to build a kernel with #define PREEMPTION disabled now.
Its too annoying to get lock-ups all the time. :) Shout when you have
some code to be tested.
Received on Mon Jul 12 2004 - 18:56:16 UTC

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