Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 19:37:07 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, sidcarter@symonds.net Subject: Re: Crash after world/kernel upgrade Message-ID: <XFMail.20020613193707.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <0GXN0079TXWQGN@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net>
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On 13-Jun-2002 Jeffrey Hsu wrote: > Duplicate inp warnings occur whenever 2 inp locks are held, even though they're > on different inps, because all the inp locks are named "inp". I've > investigated a couple of these already and they were all places where > we intended to grab two inp locks. So, for the most part, these warning are > harmless. As John said though, panics are serious, so if you get any of > those, please report them to me directly, as I only monitor this list > periodically. How do you define the order between teh two inp locks to ensure you don't end up deadlocking? That is why the warning is there. Unless you have a well-defined lock order between inp locks you can easily get into deadlocks. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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