"panic: spin lock entropy harvest mutex not in order list"

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Mon Oct 11 19:28:18 PDT 2004


Robert Watson writes:

>  When I committed the rewrite of the /dev/random entropy
>  harvesting locking, I ommitted to commit the change to
>  subr_witness.c telling witness about the lock change; witness
>  requires that all spin locks be identified in the hard-coded lock
>  order (although maybe only if witness skipspin is off, hence more
>  people not running into it?).  I've merged the change to
>  subr_witness.c as change 1.182 as of a minute or two ago.  Please
>  letme know if that change doesn't fix the problem.

	Update done, and it seems to have fixed the problem.  If you
don't hear on this again within 48 hours please consider the matter
closed.
	Thanks,


				Robert Huff





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