:I've managed to get gdb attached and get some information.
:
:The kernel is getting caught in a while loop in lwkt_acquire. I can
:reliably trigger this with with a "make -j8 buildworld" under a SMP
:kernel (Otherwise identical to GENERIC, no optimisations.) The OS is
:completely unresponsive and all four cpu cores are running at 100%.
:
:I've included the debug information.
:
:Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
:lwkt_acquire (td=0xc6a59e70) at /usr/src/sys/kern/lwkt_thread.c:1048
:1048 while (td->td_flags & (TDF_RUNNING|TDF_PREEMPT_LOCK))
:(gdb) l
:1043 mygd = mycpu;
:1044 if (gd != mycpu) {
:1045 cpu_lfence();
:1046 KKASSERT((td->td_flags & TDF_RUNQ) == 0);
:1047 crit_enter_gd(mygd);
:1048 while (td->td_flags & (TDF_RUNNING|TDF_PREEMPT_LOCK))
:1049 cpu_lfence();
:1050 td->td_gd = mygd;
:1051 TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&mygd->gd_tdallq, td, td_allq);
:1052 td->td_flags &= ~TDF_MIGRATING;
:(gdb) p td->td_flags
:$1 = 8390177
:(gdb) p td
:$2 = (thread_t) 0xc6a59e70
:(gdb) bt
:#0 lwkt_acquire (td=0xc6a59e70) at /usr/src/sys/kern/lwkt_thread.c:1048
:#1 0xc02c66af in bsd4_select_curproc (gd=0xff800000) at
:/usr/src/sys/kern/usched_bsd4.c:358
:#2 0xc02c6829 in bsd4_release_curproc (lp=0xea634c00) at
:/usr/src/sys/kern/usched_bsd4.c:322
:#3 0xc04b8239 in passive_release (td=0xdfe8aba0) at
:..
:
:Continuing execution does not appear to cause any problems.
:I can provide additional debugging info if required but I'm unsure of
:how to proceed with this myself.
:
:Regards
:
:Gary
This is great info. One thing, what do you mean by 'KVM'? What
is DragonFly running under, exactly?
I think once I understand the environment I may be able to figure out
why the acquisition loop is blowing up.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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