[HEADSUP] Please help test device vnode bypass!

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Nov 12 02:39:15 PST 2004



>Well, everything was ok for the first day.
>But since yesterday morning I get reproducable panics (failed assertion).
>
>in devfs_vnops.c:492
>
>492 KASSERT(dev->si_refcount > 0,
>493      ("devfs_ioctl() on un-referenced struct cdev *(%s)",
>494    devtoname(dev)));
>
>dev is console.
>
>Everything works when setting vfs.devfs.fops=0.
>I can give more details or test patches, but not before monday.

That KASSERT is actually not entirely accurate anymore, but I need
to check some stuff before I remove it.

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