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Date:      Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:53:49 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Charlie Martin <crmartin@sgi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where to ask about a 7.2 bug, and debugging sys/queue.h errors
Message-ID:  <20110825215348.GW17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4E56BB99.6030706@sgi.com>
References:  <4E56BB99.6030706@sgi.com>

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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 03:16:09PM -0600, Charlie Martin wrote:
> We're having a crash in some internal code running on FreeBSD 7.2=20
> (specifically  7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE and yeah, I know=20
> it's quite a bit behind) in which after 18-30 hours of running load=20
> tests, the code panics with:
>=20
> panic: Bad link elm 0xffffff0044c09600 next->prev !=3D elm
> cpuid =3D 0
> KDB: stack backtrace:
> db_trace_self_wrapper() at 0xffffffff8019119a =3D db_trace_self_wrapper+0=
x2a
> panic() at 0xffffffff80307c72 =3D panic+0x182
> devfs_populate_loop() at 0xffffffff802a43a8 =3D devfs_populate_loop+0x548
>=20
>=20
> First question: where's the most appropriate place to ask about this=20
> kind of bug on a back version.
It is fine to ask there.

>=20
> Second: does this remind anyone of any bugs?  Googling came up with a=20
> few somewhat similar things but hasn't provided much insight so far.
In 99% of the cases, it means that you forgot to dev_ref() some cdev.

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