On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 12:44:28PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > It seems we have something like a debug message left in 
 > src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:vflushbuf()
 > 
 >      if (dirty) {
 >              vprint("vflushbuf: dirty", vp);
 >              goto loop;
 >      }
 > 
 > It has been there for a while (7 years). Is there a reason 
 > why it remains always enabled? I have a machine that hit 
 > the place in a loop, getting stuck for hours printing
 > messages on the console. If it safe to #ifdef DEBUG this
 > printf?

Probably, but I don't think it's supposed to happen and possibly it
should be a panic:

/*
 * Called with the underlying vnode locked, which should prevent new dirty
 * buffers from being queued.
 */


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David A. Holland
dholl...@netbsd.org

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