5.1-CURRENT hangs on disk i/o? sysctl_old_user() non-sleepable locks

[Chris Shenton]

Don Lewis <truckman at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Try the very untested patch below ...

> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.150
> Try the very untested patch below ...
> diff -u -r1.150 uipc_syscalls.c
> --- uipc_syscalls.c	12 Jun 2003 05:52:09 -0000	1.150
> +++ uipc_syscalls.c	18 Jun 2003 03:14:42 -0000
> @@ -1775,10 +1775,13 @@
>  	 */
>  	if ((error = fgetvp_read(td, uap->fd, &vp)) != 0)
>  		goto done;
> +	vn_lock(vp, LK_EXCLUSIVE | LK_RETRY, td);
>  	if (vp->v_type != VREG || VOP_GETVOBJECT(vp, &obj) != 0) {
>  		error = EINVAL;
> +		VOP_UNLOCK(vp, 0, td);
>  		goto done;
>  	}
> +	VOP_UNLOCK(vp, 0, td);

Tried it, rebuilt kernel, rebooted, no affect :-(

You were correct about apache using it.  Doing a simple

  fetch http://pectopah/

causes the error, dropping me into ddb if panic enabled. A "tr" shows
the same trace as I submitted yesterday :-(

Time to find that null modem cable.

Thanks.