>Number: 185831 >Category: misc >Synopsis: bumping maxcpu causes witness to panic at boot >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 17 00:20:00 UTC 2014 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Alfred Perlstein >Release: 11 >Organization: Norse Corporation >Environment: >Description: If we bump maxcpu on our machine we get a panic at boot about running out of witness pending objects.
The following patch fixes it: (https://github.com/alfredperlstein/freebsd/compare/witness_scaling) diff --git a/sys/kern/subr_witness.c b/sys/kern/subr_witness.c index 9315133..e1c8d1b 100644 --- a/sys/kern/subr_witness.c +++ b/sys/kern/subr_witness.c @@ -132,10 +132,19 @@ /* Define this to check for blessed mutexes */ #undef BLESSING -#define WITNESS_COUNT 1024 -#define WITNESS_CHILDCOUNT (WITNESS_COUNT * 4) +/* + * Each cpu requires early locks so scale WITNESS_COUNT & WITNESS_PENDLIST + * based on MAXCPU + */ +#ifndef WITNESS_COUNT +#define WITNESS_COUNT (MAXCPU <= 64 ? 1024 : MAXCPU * 16) +#endif + #define WITNESS_HASH_SIZE 251 /* Prime, gives load factor < 2 */ -#define WITNESS_PENDLIST 1024 + +#ifndef WITNESS_PENDLIST +#define WITNESS_PENDLIST (MAXCPU <= 64 ? 1024 : MAXCPU * 16) +#endif /* Allocate 256 KB of stack data space */ #define WITNESS_LO_DATA_COUNT 2048 >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
