Re: kern/42228: Kernel deadlock prevents further file system access

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/42228; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/42228: Kernel deadlock prevents further file system access
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:56:26 +0100

 On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:00:06AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  One of these days I should get around to writing a deadlock detector
 >  for LOCKDEBUG. It won't make LOCKDEBUG noticeably slower than it
 >  already is... :-)
 
 IIRC Solaris has that even in non-debug kernels. You only have to do
 that if the current thread is going to sleep which means you are
 not on the fast-path anyway.
 
        Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/