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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:42:35 -0800
From:      Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        rrs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bz@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: panic: Lock so_rcv_sx not exclusively locked
Message-ID:  <20080131004235.GA1186@lizzy.catnook.local>
In-Reply-To: <20080130134307.P41201@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20080128180840.GA9582@lizzy.catnook.local> <20080128204730.I56811@fledge.watson.org> <20080129015916.GA5413@lizzy.catnook.local> <20080130134307.P41201@fledge.watson.org>

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:45:08PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
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> 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



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