Subject: Re: NEW_BUFQ really cool!
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christopher Richards <richards+netbsd@CS.Princeton.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 03/31/2003 05:21:00
On 31 Mar 2003 06:43:04 GMT, Pavel Cahyna wrote:

> > Are you referring to 1.6 the release or current? I don't remember hearing
> > about any softdep or wscons bugs that can "crash netbsd instantly", as you
> > say. Perhaps you can provide some more details?
> 
> See for example PR kern/19565 . That's on 1.6 .

See also PR kern/20432: softdep panic in 1.6.1_RC1.

The two panics happen for different reasons at different points in the
softdep code: the former, an indirect pointer mismatch in
softdep_write_inodeblock; the latter, "locking against myself" in
softdep_lock.

-- 
Chris