On 17 Jun, Chris Shenton wrote:
> Don Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> If you have another machine and a null modem cable you can redirect the
>> system console of the machine to be debugged to a serial port and run
>> some comm software on the other machine so that you can capture all the
>> output from ddb.
>
> OK, I'll give that a shot, probably tomorrow.
>
>
>> At the ddb prompt, you can do a "tr" command to get a stack trace,
>> which is likely to be very helpful in pointing out the offending
>> code.
>
> Just saw it again, did a tr. From chicken-scratch notes, the last
> bits are:
>
> VOP_GETVOBJECT(...)
> do_sendfile(...)
> sendfile(...)
> syscall(...)
> Xint0x80_syscall...
> --- syscall( 393, FreeBSD ELF32, sendfile) ...
>
> The next time it dropped into ddb, same "sendfile" thing.
Try the very untested patch below ...
> The main services I'm running are qmail, apache, and NFS. Also
> tftp, rarpd, lpd, sshd, bootparamd ... oh, well, I guess I'm running
> a bunch of stuff here. :-( Not sure which one, if any, this would be.
>
> Unless sendfile() is something in the OS?
It's a system call, and I believe apache uses it.
>
> I'll have to dig up a nullmodem and grab console output. I realise
> I'm not giving enough detailed info to be very helpful here.
It's good enough to squash one bug. I don't know if it will solve your
problem, though.
>> If you are running the NFS *client* code on this machine, there is one
>> lock assertion that is easy to trigger.
>
> In my kernel config I have this, because a diskless box uses the same
> kernel, but my /etc/fstab doesn't mount anyone else's NFS exports.
You won't trigger the the lock violation in the NFS client code unless
you actually mount a file system from another machine using NFS and
actually do some I/O on it.
Here's the patch:
Index: uipc_syscalls.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c,v
retrieving revision 1.150
diff -u -r1.150 uipc_syscalls.c
--- uipc_syscalls.c 12 Jun 2003 05:52:09 -0000 1.150
+++ uipc_syscalls.c 18 Jun 2003 03:14:42 -0000
@@ -1775,10 +1775,13 @@
*/
if ((error = fgetvp_read(td, uap->fd, &vp)) != 0)
goto done;
+ vn_lock(vp, LK_EXCLUSIVE | LK_RETRY, td);
if (vp->v_type != VREG || VOP_GETVOBJECT(vp, &obj) != 0) {
error = EINVAL;
+ VOP_UNLOCK(vp, 0, td);
goto done;
}
+ VOP_UNLOCK(vp, 0, td);
if ((error = fgetsock(td, uap->s, &so, NULL)) != 0)
goto done;
if (so->so_type != SOCK_STREAM) {
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