Subject: Re: kern/35042: panic in vmem system (missing splfoo?)
To: None <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/13/2006 07:30:40
> On Nov 12, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr wrote:
> 
> >> 	My Xen3 dom0 paniced twice today; each time in vmem(9). Looking at
> > 	backtrace I suspect a missing splfoo() somewhere: we get an interrupt
> > 	which ends up calling vmem_alloc() while we are in vmem_free().
> > 	Another Xen3 user reported a similar panic on port-xen:
> > 	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2006/11/08/0004.html
> 
> I didn't think vmem was allowed in interrupt contexts...
> 
> -- thorpej

why not?

YAMAMOTO Takashi