Re: kern/47069: posix_spawn/t_spawnattr locks up the system

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

The following reply was made to PR kern/47069; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: Julio Merino <julio%meroh.net@localhost>, gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: martin%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/47069: posix_spawn/t_spawnattr locks up the system
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:21:52 -0400

 On Oct 17,  8:16pm, julio%meroh.net@localhost (Julio Merino) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/47069: posix_spawn/t_spawnattr locks up the system
 
 | On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Christos Zoulas 
<christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
 | >  Try defining FULL ok kern_mutex.c for powerpc.
 | 
 | Nope, nothing.  I'm assuming that you meant to just "#define FULL" in
 | kern_mutex.c?  I also tried enabling LOCKDEBUG and DIAGNOSTIC.
 
 Yes.
 
 | However, I noticed one more data point: when the system locks up, one
 | of the t_spawnattr processes is in RUN state and the other in STOP
 | state.  Both show 0K of memory in the SIZE and RES columns of top.
 
 Fine, but the whole problem could be a mutex issue. Let's try this
 one first.
 
 christos