On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     This may or may not be related.  In tracking down the sched_sync() 
>     panic I found two bugs.  
> 
>     First, a couple of places where the worklist was not being protected
>     at splbio().  I'm not 100% sure that this is a problem but the code
>     is complex enough that it's just too dangerous not to do it.
> 
>     Second, a double LIST_REMOVE() was being performed in the case where
>     VOP_FSYNC() would fail to sync all the dirty pages.  This can occur
>     legally for both NFS and filesystems with SOFTUPDATES set.
> 
>     I'd appreciate it if someone could verify the double LIST_REMOVE()
>     bug.  vn_syncer_add_to_worklist() already removes the vn from
>     the list ( assuming the VONWORKLIST v_flag is set, which it should be
>     in this case ).

Your fixes for both problems look fine to me.

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Doug Rabson                             Mail:  d...@nlsystems.com
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