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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:13:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: hmm.... spinlocks..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103301613300.8467-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010330150119.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

> 
> On 30-Mar-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > pic_initialize():
> >      lint0: 0x00010700 lint1: 0x00010400 TPR: 0x00000010 SVR: 0x000001ff
> > kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled
> > panic: spin lock sched lock held by 0xc7ba8a60 for > 5 seconds
> > cpuid = 0; lapic.id = 00000000
> > Debugger("panic")
> > 
> > CPU0 stopping CPUs: 0x00000002... stopped.
> > Stopped at      Debugger+0x45:  pushl   %ebx
> > db> t
> > Debugger(c02e3759) at Debugger+0x45
> > panic(c02e2d60,c02fb929,c7ba8a60,c7ba7b80,fffea000) at panic+0xd0
> > _mtx_lock_spin(c0357400,0,80246,c02e3a48,2fb) at _mtx_lock_spin+0x6e
> > wakeup(c3709378,c3709378,c0eec000,c0f71400,c3709454) at wakeup+0x67
> > bufdone(c3709378,c7fbff40,c0131efb,c3709378,c0f71400) at bufdone+0x385
> > bufdonebio(c3709378) at bufdonebio+0xe
> > dadone(c0f5d100,c0f71400) at dadone+0x1f7
> > camisr(c032a834) at camisr+0x231
> > ithread_loop(c0b2f080,c7fbffa8) at ithread_loop+0x247
> > fork_exit(c019898c,c0b2f080,c7fbffa8) at fork_exit+0x83
> > fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x8
> 
> Did you get a crashdump (probably not.)  If you look at sched_lock, one of the
> words will be a pointer to the process owning the lock in question. 
> Unfortunately it's not the first word anymore (something I may change in the
> future).  On the alpha it would be 'sched_lock+48'.  The pointer there points
> to the process owning the lock (and you can look up the process via ps).  If
> you have a crash dump then I have some gdb macros that make it easy to get a
> backtrace of that process.  If not, then, well, it gets harder. :-P  Hmm, it
> might be nice to be able to ask ddb to give a backtrace of any arbitrary
> process.  Maybe I'll add a new command for that..
> 
> The trick is that we want to know who grabbed sched_lock where and then started
> spinning with it.  Using KTR with KTR_LOCK turned on and using the 'show ktr'
> command in ddb could also be used to see which process was the last to grab
> sched_lock and where it was grabbed.

If it happens again, I''ll try. This was, btw, i386.



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