Re: kern/41918: pppoe BROKEN: panic:kernel diagnostic assertion "!cpu_softintr_p()" ... subr_kmem.c

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Aug 23,  6:45am, kardel%netbsd.org@localhost (Frank Kardel) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/41918: pppoe BROKEN: panic:kernel diagnostic assertion "

|  Besides that there is always room for improvement, the problem occurred 
|  just recently - a feeled 1-2weeks ago (I noticed it with my -current 
|  update of last week).
|  So it is likely the deferral of the setting of link-local and loopback 
|  addresses to a thread. The workqueue setup code uses kmem_zalloc that 
|  imports the non softintr
|  requirement into in6_ifattach() (in6_ifattach.c:1.83 2009-08-13). Using 
|  malloc() instead might be an option (in6_createmkludge()) does that.
|  
|  Frank

That also seems to break if_iwn.c during boot.

christos