Subject: Re: kern/35042: panic in vmem system (missing splfoo?)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/12/2006 19:15:05
The following reply was made to PR kern/35042; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/35042: panic in vmem system (missing splfoo?) 
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:13:27 -0800

 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