Subject: Re: extent panics
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/20/1999 23:56:10
	Would it be possible to put the patches up before then?
	(I have a sparc5 clone that is particularly unstable with
	1.4 and it would be good to know if all of the problems
	it sees have been fixed :)

	Thanks...

		David/absolute

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On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Paul Kranenburg wrote:

> > I take it that :
> > 
> >     panic: pool_get: extent: page empty
> >     syncing disks...
> > 
> >     <disk timeouts ...>
> > 
> > is related to the other panics that people are seeing?  Is there a fix in
> > -current?   (1.4 GENERIC_SCSI3 on a Sparc 4 - two panics in two days).
> 
> 
> I have fixed five instances of missing spl*()/splx() bracketing in various
> kernel subsystems which were all liable to cause a failure such as this one.
> 
> All of the fixes are scheduled to appear in 1.4.1
> 
> -pk
>