mlx driver related kernel panic in Freebsd 5.2.1-RELEASE
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 1 13:11:41 PST 2004
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Julian Elischer wrote:
> isn't crashing the system a security problem :-)
It's the same policy that we have on RELENG_5_1, RELENG_5_0, RELENG_4_9,
RELENG_4_8, RELENG_4_7, etc.
Scott
>
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Scott Long wrote:
>
> > 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
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