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Date:      Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:11:46 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 6.1-RELEASE panic / lockmgr?
Message-ID:  <20060602071146.GA5925@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20060602010600.GB40143@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20060601212736.GA3380@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060601230007.C69345@fledge.watson.org> <20060602010600.GB40143@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 09:06:00PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote..
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:01:07PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > 
> > >My dual-CPU DS20 Alpha box can more or less consistently be
> > >forced into a panic like:
> > >
> > >FreeBSD/alpha (goldrush.wbnet) (ttyd0)^
> > >
> > >login: panic: lockmgr: thread 0xfffffc007d9d4a80, not exclusive lock holder
> > >0xfffffc006052d260 unlocking
> > >cpuid = 1
> > >KDB: enter: panic
> > >
> > >Trigger is a "make -j2 release".  j2 seems to be needed, not seen it with
> > >-j1
> > >
> > >Unfortunately after printing the line with "KDB" the whole thing appears 
> > >to become completely catatonic :(
> > 
> > Try putting a call to critical_enter() towards the beginning of panic(). 
> > Sometimes this increases the reliability of entering the debugger by 
> > avoiding interrupt delivery during the process of entering.  If you want to 
> > be able to continue out, you'll need a critical_exit() at the end, but that 
> > generally isn't helpful for panic().
> 
> Also turn off debug.kdb.stop_other_cpus or whatever it is.  Without
> this I usually get lockups on sparc64 SMP machines.

debug.kdb.stop_cpus=0 seems to be it.  Will try that.

thanks,
Wilko

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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