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Re: vmlocking2 branch merged
Hello,
At Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:55:06 +0000,
Andrew Doran wrote:
> The vmlocking2 branch was merged into -current earlier today. The global
> kernel_lock is now mostly confined to the network stacks, device drivers and
> a few file systems like LFS. For many paths in the kernel, it's no longer
> taken. When using an machine with multiple CPUs, the system should perform
> better on many workoads.
>
> There are some known bugs which I am working on, and without doubt more
> will be discovered:
>
> - Write activity to an LFS file system can cause the system to deadlock.
> - Unmounting a busy tmpfs can cause a kernel assertion to fail.
I get a following panic at boot time. It did not happen on 4.99.47.
And it does not happen without softdep.
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panic: initiate_write_inodeblock: already started
Stopped in pid 0.32 (system) at netbsd:breakpoint+0x1: ret
db> bt
breakpoint(c05b3630,0,80,0,ccb62888) at netbsd:breakpoint+0x1
softdep_disk_io_initiation(c2780a60,0,0,80,c2780a60) at
netbsd:softdep_disk_io_initiation+0x691
spec_strategy(ccb62910,0,ccb6293c,c055c320,ccb93bfc) at
netbsd:spec_strategy+0x3c
VOP_STRATEGY(ccb93bfc,c2780a60,0,1262a6c,0) at netbsd:VOP_STRATEGY+0x28
bwrite(c2780a60,cd1e28bc,80,0,ffffffff) at netbsd:bwrite+0xe3
ffs_update(ccb98d9c,0,0,0,0) at netbsd:ffs_update+0x336
ffs_full_fsync(ccb98d9c,5,1,0,0) at netbsd:ffs_full_fsync+0x2cb
ffs_fsync(ccb62acc,20,c055bf20,ccb98d9c,ffffffff) at netbsd:ffs_fsync+0x62
VOP_FSYNC(ccb98d9c,ffffffff,5,0,0) at netbsd:VOP_FSYNC+0x43
vinvalbuf(ccb98d9c,1,ffffffff,fb7b2060,0) at netbsd:vinvalbuf+0x1a1
vclean(ccb98d9c,8,ccb62bac,c03b2ac8,ccb62ba0) at netbsd:vclean+0x1aa
vrelel(ccb98d9c,1,0,c02cca61,c0640cb4) at netbsd:vrelel+0x1a0
vrele(ccb98d9c,ccb62bfc,0,ccb62bf8,cb7b211c) at netbsd:vrele+0x29
handle_workitem_remove(c0671908,64,cb7b2060,0,c209f630) at
netbsd:handle_workitem_remove+0xf0
softdep_process_worklist(0,c065767c64,0,0) at
netbsd:softdep_process_worklist+0xdb
sched_sync(cb7b2060,0,c01002bd,0,c01002bd) at netbsd:sched_sync+0x49
db>
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best regards.
--
Kouichirou Hiratsuka
hira%po6.nsk.ne.jp@localhost
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