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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:47:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Morten Rodal <morten@rodal.no>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic: absolutely cannot call smp_ipi_shootdown with interrupts already disabled
Message-ID:  <20030917164614.Y25425@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030916062941.GA813@slurp.rodal.no>
References:  <20030912065458.GA604@atlantis.rodal.no> <20030916062941.GA813@slurp.rodal.no>

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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Morten Rodal wrote:

> So this brings up the question, is there a known problem with
> debugging multi-threaded applications (which use libkse) that can
> cause a panic?  I will bring home my laptop, and will be able to use a
> serial debugger if that would help anyone willing to trace this down.

"Probably" :)

This came up at the developer summit.  We do need to upgrade/make
significant changes to gdb for it to understand threaded debugging.  The
panics might be interesting as it might be tickling other issues, but
before we can really debug threaded apps we need a new gdb.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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