mlx driver related kernel panic in Freebsd 5.2.1-RELEASE

[Scott Long]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Jonathan Weiss wrote:
> >
> > Great to hear, thanks a lot for testing it.  It looks like the problem can
> > manifest itself when a whole lot of I/O comes into the driver at once.  An
> > easy way that I've found to generate a pattern like this is to turn
> > softupdates off, then start 5-10 concurrent copies of large trees with
> > lots of files.  Then when the pagedaemon does its 30-second interval run,
> > it'll likely send 500-1000 i/o requests at once to the card.
> >
> > Scott
>
> Hi Scott,
>
>
> Can you please backport the patch to 5.2.1?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan

Unfortunately, no.  The RELENG_5_2 branch is closed to all but security
fixes from now on.  Had I known about this problem before 5.2.1 was
released then I would have made sure that it was fixed before the release.

Scott