On Tue, 3 May 2005, Doug White wrote: > Hey folks, > > I've taken a crack at working around the ttwwakeup() panic thats been > reported now and again. My early analysis, based on debugging output from > rwatson, is that a defunct struct tty gets reused without cleaning out the > associated (stale) knote structures, and the ttwwakeup() at the end of > sioopen() jumps off into space when it finds them. > > This patch is against RELENG_5 but the logic should apply to -CURRENT, > although the patch likely won't as ttymalloc() is organized differently > there. > > I did some basic testing on my UP box and didn't see any abberant behavior > afterwards. However I can't reproduce the panic in question, so if you're > good at triggering the panic give this a spin. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/tty.c.20050503.patch
This patch has been committed and exists as rev 1.228.2.4 of src/sys/kern/tty.c. Please let me know if this fixes the panic for you, or causes new problems :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
