Panic on -CURRENT after LDT changes
Attilio Rao
attilio at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 28 21:06:39 UTC 2007
Tor Egge wrote:
>
> Finally, I found that i386_ldt_grow() called smp_rendezvous() without
> temporarily unlocking dt_lock. That caused a deadlock. Adding a temporary
> unlock of dt_lock seems to solve the problem for me.
Effectively, there is the need to release the dt_lock before to call
smp_rendezvous() beacause other threads running on other CPUs will
contest on this lock and it will cause a deadlock (since their
curthreads don't hold the lock).
I think that mantaining the current locking requirements for
i386_ldt_grow() is still good, since, for how it is used, this is the
lighter approach. I will add release/unrelease around smp_rendezvous() too.
Thanks for the catch,
Attilio
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