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

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

The following reply was made to PR kern/41918; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: kern/41918: pppoe BROKEN: panic:kernel diagnostic assertion 
"!cpu_softintr_p()" ... subr_kmem.c
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:54:35 -0400

 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