Re: panic: Lock so_rcv_sx not exclusively locked

From: Jos Backus <jos_at_catnook.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:42:35 -0800
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:45:08PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
[snip]
> Thanks, looks like that's enough for now.  I've attached a patch, could you 
> let me know if it works?  There turned out to be a number of issues here, 
> not least the possibility of an inter-thread deadlock if the blocked socket 
> read was never going to return, so if you could watch out for processes 
> failing to exit, not just panics, that would be good.  I've CC'd Randall as 
> this change touches SCTP in a few places.

After applying this patch I can no longer panic the system by killing
npviewer.bin. Firefox feels more responsive, too.

Thanks, Robert!

-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com
Received on Wed Jan 30 2008 - 23:42:14 UTC

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