On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:30:21PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > So? How about some details and context?
Um, what more "details and context" do you need? I provided the log of the system activity (specifically, media errors and swap read failure) leading up to the panic, and the ddb backtrace. > I thought was told that being able to use locks in HBAs is fine. I had > them on for a while, and then had them off. I turned them on again over > a month ago. I'm somewhat surprised to see that a problem shows up now. This was apparently triggered by the disk failure, which is not a commonly exercised code path. > *I* do the right thing with locks, IMO. I hold them in my module when I > enter and release them if/when I leave. Seeing a lock held by some > random caller causing me to blow up to me seems to be a hole in the > architecture, but I'd be the first to admit that I hardly am up to date > on what the rules of the road are now so such an opinion is > ill-informed. > > Comment out ISP_SMPLOCK in isp_freebsd.h. If the problem goes away, > we'll make the change back again. I'll do what I can. > -matt > > p.s.: you have *way* more issues here than locking- you've a bad disk. I know, but the system shouldn't blow up with a lock assertion in this failure mode. > Anyway, isn't alpha desupported? No. Kris
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