Subject: Re: kern/36046 locking issue in gdt_get_slot
To: None <ad@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/13/2007 01:55:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/36046; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, ad@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, cherry.g.mathew@gmail.com
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/36046 locking issue in gdt_get_slot
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:53:10 -0400

 On Apr 12, 10:25pm, ad@netbsd.org (Andrew Doran) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/36046 locking issue in gdt_get_slot
 
 | The following reply was made to PR kern/36046; it has been noted by GNATS.
 | 
 | From: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
 | To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
 | Cc: 
 | Subject: Re: kern/36046 locking issue in gdt_get_slot
 | Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:24:34 +0100
 | 
 |  This is an old bug that has been exposed by the debugging checks in
 |  mutex_vector_enter. I'm working on a fix.
 |  
 |  Andrew
 
 There is also the issue of coredumping when other LWP's are running.
 At least on my amd64 box, the linux 1.6 jdk for i386 causes panics
 when it core-dumps.
 
 christos