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Date:      Sun, 21 Jan 2001 09:25:29 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.org, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Subject:   Re: current hangs... 
Message-ID:  <7757.980065529@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:03:08 PST." <XFMail.010120160308.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <XFMail.010120160308.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>
>On 20-Jan-01 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <XFMail.010120145554.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>>>
>>>On 20-Jan-01 The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Mark Murray wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> >
>>>>> > on a 2xPII/350, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc, and ccd I have three times
>>>>> > now hung the machine so that only reset got any attention simply by
>>>>> >    make -j 128 world
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have an easy way to narrow it down to CCD by doing the same
>>>>> thing but without ccd involvement?
>>>> 
>>>> I don't have CCD, and got home last night from the office and mine was
>>>> hung also, on a kernel from the day before ... being in X, pretty much
>>>> nothing I could do to try and debug it ... new laptop gets in this week,
>>>> so will be setting up the whole serial console debugging env ...
>>>
>>>Is it SMP, and does it have multiple SCSI disks hanging off of the same
>>>device?
>> 
>> SMP, one scsi disk on each controller, /usr and /home ccd'ed.
>
>Is there any code dealing with disk I/O in the kernel that does the equivalent
>of this:
>
>while (!io_done)
>  /* spin */ ;
>
>That assumes an interrupt will set io_done?
>
>Using DELAY() in places might explain this.

Not that I know of.

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