Re: Page fault in IFNET_WLOCK_ASSERT [if.c and pccbb.c]

2009-10-11 Thread Harsha
Hi Robert, On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Robert Watson wrote: > Giant is a bit special in that the long-term sleep code in the kernel knows > to drop it when sleeping, and re-acquire when waking up.  So, unlike all > other mutexes, it should be OK to hold it in this case, as Giant will simply

Re: Page fault in IFNET_WLOCK_ASSERT [if.c and pccbb.c]

2009-10-11 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Harsha Srinath wrote: I'm running an updated HEAD kernel and got a page fault in ifindex_alloc_locked() in if.c. I figured that the problem was caused by the (pluggable) network card of my laptop and found that during the initialization of the interface, cb_event_thread()

Page fault in IFNET_WLOCK_ASSERT [if.c and pccbb.c]

2009-10-11 Thread Harsha Srinath
Hi all, I'm running an updated HEAD kernel and got a page fault in ifindex_alloc_locked() in if.c. I figured that the problem was caused by the (pluggable) network card of my laptop and found that during the initialization of the interface, cb_event_thread() takes the giant lock and up the call ch

Re: host(1) coredumps

2009-10-11 Thread Doug Barton
Mikolaj Golub wrote: > BTW, we have already had the pr about this problem. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/138061 > > IMO it would be nice to add the patch there. Normally that would be a good idea, but I've just adopted the PR and sent a link to it and the patch to the bind-u

Re: host(1) coredumps

2009-10-11 Thread Mikolaj Golub
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:16:43 +0800 Eugene Grosbein wrote: EG> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 05:41:50PM +0200, vol...@vwsoft.com wrote: >> > % host -l grosbein.pp.ru. ns2.rucable.net. >> > ; Transfer failed. >> > /usr/local/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/socket.c:2486: >> > R