Subject: Re: extent panics
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/20/1999 23:56:10
Would it be possible to put the patches up before then?
(I have a sparc5 clone that is particularly unstable with
1.4 and it would be good to know if all of the problems
it sees have been fixed :)
Thanks...
David/absolute
-=- "I know its not the right thing, and I know its not the good thing" -=-
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Paul Kranenburg wrote:
> > I take it that :
> >
> > panic: pool_get: extent: page empty
> > syncing disks...
> >
> > <disk timeouts ...>
> >
> > is related to the other panics that people are seeing? Is there a fix in
> > -current? (1.4 GENERIC_SCSI3 on a Sparc 4 - two panics in two days).
>
>
> I have fixed five instances of missing spl*()/splx() bracketing in various
> kernel subsystems which were all liable to cause a failure such as this one.
>
> All of the fixes are scheduled to appear in 1.4.1
>
> -pk
>