On a piece of hardware trying to verify basic build tests, we got an MCA exception that then panic'd the kernel due to WITNESS/INVARIANTS interaction. panic _at_ time 1296563157.510, thread 0xffffff0005540000: blockable sleep lock (sleep mutex) 128 _at_ /build/mnt/src/sys/vm/uma_core.c:1872 Stack: -------------------------------------------------- kernel:witness_checkorder+0x7a2 kernel:_mtx_lock_flags+0x81 kernel:uma_zalloc_arg+0x256 kernel:malloc+0xc5 kernel:mca_record_entry+0x30 kernel:mca_scan+0xc9 kernel:mca_intr+0x79 kernel:trap+0x30b kernel:witness_checkorder+0x66 kernel:_mtx_lock_spin_flags+0xa4 kernel:witness_checkorder+0x2a8 kernel:_mtx_lock_spin_flags+0xa4 kernel:tdq_idled+0xe8 kernel:sched_idletd+0x5b kernel:fork_exit+0x9b That's this bit of code in uma_zalloc_arg(): #ifdef INVARIANTS ZONE_LOCK(zone); uma_dbg_alloc(zone, NULL, item); ZONE_UNLOCK(zone); #endif I don't know uma(9) well enough to know the best workaround. Clearly there are times we can be in uma_zalloc_arg() and taking a regular mutex is not acceptable. But what to do for the uma_dbg_free() call so it's happy, and whether to guard taking the ZONE lock with M_NOWAIT or td_critnest > 0 or both is outside my current knowledge. I don't expect we'll see this panic again any time soon, but it would be nice to fix the story for WITNESS of when an M_NOWAIT allocation can be done. Thanks, matthewReceived on Tue Feb 01 2011 - 15:58:14 UTC
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