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Date:      Fri,  7 Feb 2003 22:39:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharma-home.net>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:        smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Enabling mutex profiling panics the kernel
Message-ID:  <20030208063928.9D5F13B@astra.mirabella.net>

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>Submitter-Id:	current-users
>Originator:	Arun Sharma
>Organization:	
>Confidential:	no 
>Synopsis:	Enabling mutex profiling panics the kernel
>Severity:	non-critical
>Priority:	medium
>Category:	kern
>Class:		sw-bug
>Release:	FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD astra.mirabella.net 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jan 25 18:25:49 PST 2003 root@astra.mirabella.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/astra i386

>Description:
	Enabling mutex profiling panics the kernel.

>How-To-Repeat:
	# sysctl debug.mutex.profiling.enable=1
	# sysctl debug.mutex
>Fix:

	The problem is caused by holding the mprof_mtx and calling
	printf, which results in a blockable malloc().


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