From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 13 11:16: 2 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBC614C3C; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:15:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA20572; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:15:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:15:48 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Peter Wemm Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c Message-ID: <20000113201548.B20217@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <200001131848.KAA35407@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001131848.KAA35407@freefall.freebsd.org>; from peter@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:48:13AM -0800 Organisation: bART Internet Services B.V. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk -On [20000113 19:55], Peter Wemm (peter@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > Log: > Free the global softupdates lock prior to tsleep() in getdirtybuf(). > This seems to be responsible for a bunch of panics where the process > sleeps and something else finds softupdates "locked" when it shouldn't > be. This commit is unreviewed, but has been a big help here. > Previously my boxes would panic pretty much on the first fsync() that > wrote something to disk. This fixes at least the panics I saw on my BP6 dual CPU board. Couldn't even dump to my disk after the panic due to the ad0 going in a time-out and resetting. =\ Thanks peter! -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator bART Internet Services / Tel: +31 - (0) 10 - 240 39 70 VIA NET.WORKS Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message