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Date:      Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:56:13 +0100
From:      Bartosz Stec <admin@kkip.pl>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: panic: sleeping thread & bufwrite: buffer is not busy???
Message-ID:  <49475F1D.3030902@kkip.pl>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0812121039180.41885@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <4940A685.7040608@psg.com> <494216C2.7080606@kkip.pl>	<20081212095238.GY2038@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>	<49423E5A.10900@kkip.pl> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0812121039180.41885@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson pisze:
>
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Bartosz Stec wrote:
>
>> OK. I'll try to build debug kernel today and I will provide 
>> backtrace. I forgot to mention in my last post that I saw very 
>> similiar (if not identical) lines to:
>>
>>   Sleeping thread (tid 100054, pid 646) owns a non-sleepable lock
>>   panic: sleeping thread
>>   panic: bufwrite: buffer is not busy???
>>
>> while checking dmesg buffer after one of the panics earlier. That's 
>> why I assumed it's probably the same issue. Sorry for confusion, 
>> they're my first steps with CURRENT and very first experience with 
>> kernel panic :).
>
> Yeah, secondary panics can significantly complicate the debugging 
> process, unfortunately.  Another similar class of confusing cases 
> exist when panics occur and are then preempted during the panic by 
> another thread that promptly trips over state left behind by the first 
> thread, and panics. :-)
>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
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Whatever it was it's gone by now. Kernel builded yesterday doesn't panic 
until now. I still could provide some debug information if needed.

-- 
Bartosz Stec






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