I'm seeing issues on a unicore systems running a derivative of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE if something calls mem_range_attr_set. It turns out that the root cause is a bug in smp_rendezvous_cpus. The first part of smp_rendezvous_cpus attempts to short-circuit the non-SMP case(note that smp_started is never set to 1 on a unicore system): if (!smp_started) { if (setup_func != NULL) setup_func(arg); if (action_func != NULL) action_func(arg); if (teardown_func != NULL) teardown_func(arg); return; } The problem is that this runs with interrupts enabled, outside of a critical section. My system runs with device_polling enabled with hz set to 2500, so its quite easy to wedge the system by having a thread run mem_range_attr_set. That has to do a smp_rendezvous, and if a timer interrupt happens to go off half-way through the action_func and preempt this thread, the system ends up deadlocked(although once it's wedged, typing at the serial console stands a good chance of unwedging the system. Go figure). I know that smp_rendezvous was reworked substantially on HEAD, but by inspection it looks like the bug is still present, as the short-circuit behaviour is still there. I am not entirely sure of the best way to fix this. Is it as simple as doing a spinlock_enter before setup_func and a spinlock_exit after teardown_func? It seems to boot fine, but I'm not at all confident that I understand the nuances of smp_rendezvous to be sure that there aren't side effects that I don't know about.Received on Fri Oct 28 2011 - 13:37:15 UTC
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