Re: netbsd-5 NFS(?) lock up

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 03:29:37AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 07:30:05AM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
>  > I can't see what's causing this to happen, although with all the macros the
>  > NFS source can be a bit of a minefield (lots going on behind the scenes).
>  > Sadly the "last locked" address is a bit useless because it's always going
>  > to be genfs_renamelock_enter().
>  > 
>  > David does NFS really need this lock? I think not...
> 
> It certainly does, unless you want to reintroduce the silent fs
> corruption.
> 
> The trace suggests that it's being left dangling somewhere; does
> lockdebug remember where each lock was acquired?

FWIW, I got this panic again and filled a PR: kern/41158

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