propagate_priority panic

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 7 18:27:11 GMT 2005


On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Xin LI wrote:

> ÿÿ 2005-06-07ÿÿÿÿ 09:32 +0200ÿÿFrode Nordahlÿÿÿÿÿÿ
>> Dear colleagues,
> [snip]
>> db> trace
>> Tracing pid 86 tid 100089 td 0xc54a1e10
>> propagate_priority(c54a1e10,c08f3750,c54c6960,c0901ae0,c54a1e10) at
>> propagate_priority+0x7f
>
> This looks like what I have been observed within a recent -CURRENT 
> kernel, which indicates a bug that was fixed recently.

propagate_priority() panics are often a symptom of an attempt to use a 
mutex operation on a non-mutex, so this could be a symptom of an attempt 
to call mtx_lock() on a free'd data structure (or related bug).

Robert N M Watson


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