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Date:      Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:00:31 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Today's RELENG_5_4 and 'lock cmpxchgl'
Message-ID:  <20050713120030.GB23629@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050713092939.GA65261@stack.nl>
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:29:39AM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 04:32:16PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:38:58AM +0200, Philippe PEGON wrote:
> > > >The panic appears to be an instance of a known bug in 5.4 (and
> > > >INVARIANTS will not fix it, but may just delay the inevitable by
> > > >changing timings).  See Doug White's recent emails which point to a
> > > >patch you should test.
> > >=20
> > > If you think about this mail :
> > >=20
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2005-June/01616=
5.html
> > >=20
> > > and follow the thread, you will see that this patch doesn't solve the=
=20
> > > problem.
> > > The last mail which I can see from doug white about this problem is :
> > >=20
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-stable/2005-June/01649=
5.html
> > >=20
> > > for the moment, it seems that there is no solution for 5.x
> >=20
> > Well, the bug hasn't bitten me since I reactivated INVARIANTS, so I'll
> > keep this workaround active for now. :-/ If I don't enable INVARIANTS,
> > as soon as I start 'screen', it's a panic.
>=20
> Stress testing this gives me instant fatal trap 12 on both 11 juli's
> CURRENT and RELENG_5.
>=20
> I'll file a PR.

Make sure you recompile any modules when activating INVARIANTS, or
you'll get panics.

Kris


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