On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 11:46:45AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> I got a crash today because "xvp" did not have an interlock when the
> call was made to vn_lock(LK_INTERLOCK):
> 407 if (snapdebug)
> 408 vprint("ffs_snapshot: busy vnode", xvp);
> 409 if (vn_lock(xvp, LK_EXCLUSIVE | LK_INTERLOCK, td) != 0)
> 410 goto loop;
> 411 xp = VTOI(xvp);
> 412
>
> I don't in fact see any reason why "xvp" would have been locked already
> and that this could possibly be valid in the face of a mountpoint which
> had any vnodes at all open. This occurred on fscking my "/tmp"
> filesystem because of crashes (due to an SSE utilization bug in the
> kernel, it seems), which I'm sure was a filesystem in heavy use already.
>
> Does anyone have any insight on what the correct fix to this is? I
> don't have any idea exactly how to correct the locking in this function.
> Thanks for insight!
>
I had the exact same panic while doing a background fsck
on /var. I sent the kernel trace to the list yesterday,
and forwarded to Kirk.
--
Steve
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