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Re: SPL NOT ZERO ON SYSCALL ENTRY



On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 08:33:31PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> Just got that panic, on a dual-core i386.
> It happened during heavy file system activity while
> accelerated X apps were active. I've seen a couple
> of DDB traps in that situation in recent days, but
> was never able to get a coredump before.
> 
> What could cause that panic? splxxx() use in interrupt
> context?

My guess is the problem was a missing splx() in an error-handling case. 
You got busy-enough to trigger a transient error, and so you found a bad 
error-handlng path. Somewhere. :-(

Take care,

Bill

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