Love <lha@stacken.kth.se> writes:

> One way around the problem might be to make vcount not vnone VXLOCKed
> vnodes with refcount 0.

That seems to do the trick, at least I can't trigger the deadlock any more.
Now, is it the right thing ? If not, how should it be solved ?

Love

Index: vfs_subr.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c,v
retrieving revision 1.150
diff -u -w -r1.150 vfs_subr.c
--- vfs_subr.c  2001/06/05 04:42:05     1.150
+++ vfs_subr.c  2001/06/24 20:35:25
@@ -1785,7 +1785,8 @@
                /*
                 * Alias, but not in use, so flush it out.
                 */
-               if (vq->v_usecount == 0 && vq != vp) {
+               if (vq->v_usecount == 0 && vq != vp &&
+                   (vq->v_flag & VXLOCK) == 0) {
                        simple_unlock(&spechash_slock);
                        vgone(vq);
                        goto loop;