Subject: Re: kern/36046 locking issue in gdt_get_slot
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, ad@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/12/2007 21:53:10
On Apr 12, 10:25pm, ad@netbsd.org (Andrew Doran) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/36046 locking issue in gdt_get_slot

| The following reply was made to PR kern/36046; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
| To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
| Cc: 
| Subject: Re: kern/36046 locking issue in gdt_get_slot
| Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:24:34 +0100
| 
|  This is an old bug that has been exposed by the debugging checks in
|  mutex_vector_enter. I'm working on a fix.
|  
|  Andrew

There is also the issue of coredumping when other LWP's are running.
At least on my amd64 box, the linux 1.6 jdk for i386 causes panics
when it core-dumps.

christos