On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 06:17:51PM +0000, Abhishek Kulkarni wrote:
> Thanks very much Mark. Should I raise a bug about this on freebsd.org?

That would be helpful, thanks.

> 
> Regards
> Abhishek Kulkarni
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/11/16, 9:49 AM, "Mark Johnston" <[email protected] on behalf of 
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 08:55:56PM +0000, Abhishek Kulkarni wrote:
> >> Hello All,
> >> 
> >> I was using Dtrace  using the FBT provider on an arm platform with witness 
> >> enabled. When FBT is used with the kernel module, it generates a kernel 
> >> panic or the system becomes unresponsive. Is this problem know or seen 
> >> before. I am copying the kernel backtrace below for reference. The issue 
> >> seems to be with a blockable sleep lock(kld_sx) acquired which is 
> >> conflicting with the td->td_critnest positive value.
> >
> >Unfortunately, I think this is expected. The ARM port of DTrace will
> >call into the kernel linker from probe context to perform stack
> >unwinding. This is a bug since the kernel linker cannot be entered in
> >arbitrary contexts - the thread might already hold the linker lock, or
> >might hold a critical section as in your example.
> >
> >This is a known issue, but I'm not sure if anyone is working on fixing
> >it.
> >
> >-Mark
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