DragonFlyBSD

..

I can't tell you why you get the panic, but I'd love to know what
combination of hardware and software you used to generate that picture.
I've wished many times I could do the same thing.

Anyone know if an ordinary webcam could capture such an image? (I had
that thought after reading a review of Hofstadter's book "I Am A Strange
Loop" -- which I promise to read sometime before I die...)

Thanks!

Hmm, I'm just using my crappy digicam. :)

Sascha

:I reliably get this on one box around 10 seconds after the login prompt
:appears printed. Occurs after upgrading it from last weekend's HEAD to
:today's. Tried with a stock GENERIC kernel from a snapshot CD, same result.
:
:http://yoyodyne.ath.cx/tmp/LPIC0028.JPG
:
:I can't provide a core dump because this box refuses to dump, it gets
:stuck at the first MB (prints "1023" and just sits there).
:
:Sascha
:
:--
:http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Ugh, I must have broken something in the putpages code.  I'll look
    into it.

-Matt
                    Matthew Dillon 
                    <dillon@backplane.com>

::http://yoyodyne.ath.cx/tmp/LPIC0028.JPG
::
::I can't provide a core dump because this box refuses to dump, it gets
::stuck at the first MB (prints "1023" and just sits there).
::
::Sascha
::
::--
::http://yoyodyne.ath.cx
:
: Ugh, I must have broken something in the putpages code. I'll look
: into it.

I think I muffed up putpages when I tried to fix msdosfs. I thought
    the pages were busied but it looks like they aren't busied.  In fact,
    it looks like the caller already properly soft-busies the pages so
    I dont need to do that either.

Tell me if this patch works.

-Matt
                    Matthew Dillon 
                    <dillon@backplane.com>

Index: vnode_pager.c ===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/vm/vnode_pager.c,v
retrieving revision 1.38
diff u -p -r1.38 vnode_pager.c
-- vnode_pager.c 22 Aug 2007 16:56:52 -0000 1.38
+++ vnode_pager.c 25 Aug 2007 23:20:54 -0000
@ -655,6 +655,7 @ }
}
}

+#if 0
/* * Severe hack to avoid deadlocks with the buffer cache
*/
@ -664,6 +665,7 @
vm_page_io_start(mt);
vm_page_wakeup(mt);
}
+#endif

/*
 * pageouts are already clustered, use IO_ASYNC to force a bawrite()
@ -703,10 +705,13 @                 "vnode_pager_putpages: residual I
                 auio.uio_resid, (u_long)m[0]->pindex);
     }
     for (i = 0; i < ncount; i++) {
#if 0
         vm_page_t mt = m[i];
#endif

rtvals[i] = VM_PAGER_OK;

+#if 0
/* * Severe hack to avoid deadlocks with the buffer cache
*/
@ -714,6 +719,7 @ while (vm_page_sleep_busy(mt, FALSE, "
;
vm_page_busy(mt);
vm_page_io_finish(mt);
+#endif
}
return rtvals⁰;
}

Yeah, the panic is gone now.

Thanks,
Sascha

:Yeah, the panic is gone now.
:
:Thanks,
:Sascha

Good.  I've committed it.

-Matt
                    Matthew Dillon 
                    <dillon@backplane.com>