On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:41:52PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Fri Feb 16 2007 at 19:53:32 +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:58:35PM +0100, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> > 
> > > I just updated my -current NetBSD/amd64 a few minutes ago ... And
> > > quickly hit a problem. I'm getting a kernel panic while trying to list
> > > some files in /proc with this simple command :
> > > 
> > > njoly@lanfeust [~]> sudo mount_procfs /proc /proc 
> > > njoly@lanfeust [~]> ls /proc/*/file
> > > [..PANIC..]
> > 
> > I can reproduce the crash. I believe that there may still be issues with
> > Linux applications and /proc, also. I'll be looking into this tomorrow and
> > will update the list with more as I have it.
> 
> This wasn't a newlock2 problem, but a problem with ktrace lwp.  I have
> no idea why it was discovered only now.  Maybe it was earlier shadowed
> by something, but at least I could repeat it on a pre-newlock2 kernel.

Strange that i never encountered it before.

> Nicolas:
> Can you try procfs_vnops.c rev. 1.148 and see if there are any more
> problems.  The logic between node validity for non-linux mounts and
> linux mounts was quite strange.

Thanks, the listing problem is gone. I'll try to stress /proc in the
next few days, with and without compat linux option.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.