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Date:      Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:16:42 -0600
From:      "Alan L. Cox" <alc@imimic.com>
To:        Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, alc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic in latest pmap.c
Message-ID:  <3DE0287A.37D582E7@imimic.com>
References:  <2510000.1038084559@leeloo.intern.geht.de> <3DDFEDCA.15889E06@imimic.com> <3490000.1038091838@leeloo.intern.geht.de>

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Marc Recht wrote:
> 
> > Can you re-cvsup and update just to make sure everything is current?
> I did cvsup everything.
> 
> > Every place that pmap_remove_all() is called appears to hold the page
> > queue mutex.  The only exception is long-broken code that is compiled
> > under ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT.
> ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT (vfs.ioopt=1) was the problem. Turning it off fixed it.
> 

ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT and vfs.ioopt were long ago disabled due to bugs.  To
the best of my knowledge, these bugs have never been resolved. 
Unfortunately, it appears that the documentation in NOTES doesn't
mention this.

Regards,
Alan

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