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Date:      Sun, 17 Mar 2002 09:17:22 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Munehiro Matsuda <haro@h4.dion.ne.jp>, tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, hitmaster2k@yahoo.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -current lock warning...
Message-ID:  <20020317171722.GZ4857@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020317120811.965J-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20020317163953.GY4857@elvis.mu.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020317120811.965J-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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* Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> [020317 09:08] wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > * Munehiro Matsuda <haro@h4.dion.ne.jp> [020317 06:36] wrote:
> > > 
> > > PS. I got another message that happend when I ^C'ed a buildworld earlier, 
> > > with same kernel. May be it should go to Alfred Perlstein?
> > > 
> > > lock order reversal
> > >  1st 0xc198eec0 pipe mutex @ ../../../kern/sys_pipe.c:779
> > >  2nd 0xc0367fe0 Giant @ ../../../i386/i386/trap.c:716
> > 
> > I think there's a place where the pipe can fault on an address while
> > copying, I'll take a look at this. 
> 
> Are there any assertions that should be in place for copyin/copyout
> requring fault handling?  It sounds like somewhere we need to assert that
> Giant is held...

No, you need to assert that no other mutex other than Giant is held.

It would be nice... :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
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 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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