threads/136345: Recursive read rwlocks in thread A cause deadlock with write lock in thread B

[Attilio Rao]

2009/7/5 Rink Springer <rink at freebsd.org>:
> Did some more testing; it works fine on Solaris 9 and 10. Also, the
> deadlock doesn't appear on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE (Sep 2006). Perhaps this
> is a libthr issue?

I think that rdlock_count in libthr is not updated properly.
Can you test the following patch:
http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/libthr.diff

Thanks,
Attilio


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