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alpha LOCKDEBUG hang



As mentined by Michael L. Hitch some weeks ago on port-alpha,
Alpha LOCKDEBUG kernels hang early during boot.

I have looked a bit at it, and now I know what the problem is:
The kernel main() calls uvm_init() earlyin the boot process.
uvm_init in turn calls uvm_page_init(),
which on alpha calls VM_MDPAGE_INIT() once per page.
Now the bad part: VM_MDPAGE_INIT calls mutex_init, which, after
consuming the pre-allocated lockdebug memory in ld_prime,
calls lockdebug_more, which calls kmem_zalloc. Unfortunately kmem_init
has not been called at that time, and everything gets totally broken.

I worked around it by increasing LD_BATCH_SHIFT in subr_lockdebug.c
to 14 which is enough for my 64Meg test machine, and it went multiuser
and paniced on login, just as a non-LOCKDEBUG kernel (It is a DEC 3000,
and there are some locking problems with the zs tty driver).

So the basic problem is that it tries to make too many mutex_init() before
it can allocate memory for lockdebug info for them, and that the lockdebug
code happily tries to allocate memory before the allocator is initialized.

-hjalmar


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