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Date:      Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:25:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        smp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: total confusion...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010720132520.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107201148331.88617-100000@beppo>

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On 20-Jul-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> I thought that by default Giant is held in calls through specfs to devices.
> 
> I still got a panic as in:

A 'show locks' would help here perhaps.  sigexit() grabs Giant before calling
exit1(), so that should be ok.  Also, turning on KTR and getting KTR_LOCK
traces to see when Giant was released and where would probably help immensely
as well.

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