Subject: Re: Getting "TLB IPI rendezvous failed..."
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/15/2005 04:30:04
In article <20050113001626.GA25591@vaasje.org>,
	Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:44:33PM -0500, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
>> You can also just add the  splclock()/splx in x86_ipi as there is no
>> need to protect the atomic bitmaps.
> 
> Ayup. Many thanks for the suggestions, I committed that change.
> 
> Can the people who had these problems (Fred, Havard?) see if this makes
> any change? I tested if the changes work on one of my SMP systems, but
> I could never reproduce the bug itself on those in the first place.

I built a 2.0 kernel with the changes -- I never see the problem with
a current kernel -- and it froze in about the same place.  I was in X,
so I didn't get to see the trace, but it seems like nothing's changed.


Frederick