re: kern/50629: netbsd-7 kernel panic

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

On Mar 21,  8:19am, 6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost (6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: re: kern/50629: netbsd-7 kernel panic

| On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| > Unfortunately the fix is not easy. I believe that the ipf mutex is held
| > so that there can be no rule changes during packet processing. Alas, we
| > can't obtain an rwlock in an interrupt context so let's just disable that
| > for now...
| >
| > christos
| 
| The patch seems to help. The router has now an uptime of 6 days. So far 
| there are no problems. To be sure, we have to wait a little longer.

Great, thanks! Again removal of the lock only impacts rule changes processing
during packet processing...

christos