md deadlocks on wdrain. Was: [Re: quota and snapshotsin6.1-RELEASE]

[Steven Hartland]

Thanks for that, from our point of view its required
as without the machine deadlocks without even trying.

One real strange thing was that if I created a copy of
the vnode file, this particular task ( installworld )
would succeed but given the nature of the bug ( timing
critical ) that seem to make sence.

With this still being a potential issue I think we have
no choice but to migrate away from using any vnode backed
jails.

That said I thank you for this as it certainly help us.

    Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kostik Belousov" <kostikbel at gmail.com>
This is not a fix, this is only a way to make the deadlock less frequent
(I would not ever call it workaround). I have got a reports of deadlocks
with this change applied, and I think that I understand the cause of it.
Also, I have an idea of how to fix it, but not got around to even start
coding.

> ? sys/dev/md/.arch-ids
> Index: sys/dev/md/md.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /usr/local/arch/ncvs/src/sys/dev/md/md.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.164
> diff -u -r1.164 md.c
> --- sys/dev/md/md.c 28 Mar 2006 21:25:11 -0000 1.164
> +++ sys/dev/md/md.c 1 Jul 2006 03:48:41 -0000
> @@ -650,6 +650,8 @@
>  mtx_lock_spin(&sched_lock);
>  sched_prio(curthread, PRIBIO);
>  mtx_unlock_spin(&sched_lock);
> + if (sc->type == MD_VNODE)
> +  curthread->td_pflags |= TDP_NORUNNINGBUF;
> 
>  for (;;) {
>   mtx_lock(&sc->queue_mtx);



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