Panic with swap-backed md devices
David Schultz
das at FreeBSD.ORG
Sun May 18 16:09:53 PDT 2003
On Sun, May 18, 2003, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2003-05-17 22:35, David Schultz <das at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 15, 2003, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > Trying to create and destroy a swap-backed md device results in panics
> > > with today's CURRENT. I was trying to make a new -t swap md disk to
> > > test the problem described in a PR. Using the following small shell
> > > script I noticed that it always causes a panic when mdconfig -d is run:
> > >
> > > mdconfig -a -t swap -s 100m -u 10
> > > disklabel -r -w md10 auto
> > > newfs -O 1 -b 8192 -s 1024 md10
> > > mount /dev/md10 /mnt
> > > mount
> > > umount /mnt
> > > mount
> > > mdconfig -d -u 10
> >
> > The following patch should fix the panic, but there's a small
> > vm_object leak that's still unfixed. I'll look into that.
>
> Thanks :)
> I'm CVSup'ing now and will build a kernel to test it in 1-2 hours.
Actually alc fixed it in src/sys/dev/md/md.c,v1.99, along with the
leak. Apparently it's intentional that vm_pager_deallocate() is
not the inverse of vm_pager_allocate(). :-O
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