Subject: Re: crashes in recent kernels
To: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 02/04/1996 14:28:54
On Sun, 4 Feb 1996 12:14:19 -0500 (EST)
"John F. Woods" <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com> wrote:
> I've seen a lot of mysterious problems since I recompiled on Jan. 31.
> In addition to the "dk_busy < 0" panics (plural, I just got a second
[ Note: John mentioned to me earlier that it's his floppy drive that's
triggering the dk_busy panic... --thorpej ]
Re. the dk_busy panics, it's *extremely* difficult for me to debug this.
I only have access to one PC with a floppy drive, and it's on someone
elses desk (their workstation...) I'm unable to reproduce this on any of
my SPARCs.
If you could help me track this down, I would really appreciate it.
> I also got another fatal page fault while the system was trying to
> panic from the second dk_busy crash; that time, the backtrace was just
Re. fatal page faults during panic ... I can't help but wonder of
something is trying to operate on curproc while it's NULL. Note that
disk_unbusy() is typically called in an interrupt context.
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