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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:51:34 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Possble deadlock on ffsvgt or spl() leak? 
Message-ID:  <199809172051.NAA00431@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:52:22 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980917115212.3932C-100000@current1.whistle.com> 

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> soft updates involved?

They're in the kernel, but not active on any of the filesystems due to 
their unreliability at this point in time.  We're trying to build 
a release, not shoot our feet off.

> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Trying to build a 3.0 snapshot for public consumption here, we're 
> > seeing the system come to a relative halt (no user processes running, 
> > still possible to break into DDB).
> > 
> > There's a collection of processes sleeping on 'ffsvgt', and the kernel 
> > is running in the idle loop (breaking to DDB interrupts _default_halt).
> > 
> > This is on a reasonably current SMP kernel (midday yesterday).
> > _cpl looked a little worrying (0xc300009a), which is why I was 
> > wondering about a possible spl() leak.
> > 
> > Anyone have any bright ideas?
> > 
> > -- 
> > \\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
> > \\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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> > \\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com
> > 
> > 
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> 

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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