Core Dump / panic sleeping thread

[Michael Landin Hostbaek]

On Mar 21, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:14:37PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote:
>> Well, read/write sharing of files over NFS is pretty rare, so I suspect
>> a truncation of a file by another client (or locally in the NFS server)
>> is a rare event. As such, not invalidating the buffers here doesn't seem
>> like a big issue? (The client uses np->n_size to determine EOF.)
>> 
>> Also, I think close-to-open consistency will typically throw away the
>> buffers on the next open when it sees the mtime changed. (Yes, there
>> won't necessarily be another open, but...)
> nfs buffers are VMIO. Each VMIO buffer wires the pages it references.
> Wired pages cannot be freed by vnode_pager_setsize() if the file is
> truncated.

Should I wait for a new patch, or should I give the one you sent yesterday a try? 

Thanks, 

/mich