vnode_pager.c patch needs testing
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Aug 10 22:08:33 PDT 2007
:G'day Mate
:
:On 8/10/07, Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
:> This patch to vnode_pager.c needs some serious testing. It's part
:> of the userfs work I am doing. To test, do something that accesses a
:> lot of files and causes a lot of paging to occur. Testing in a vkernel
:> is fine.
:
:Testing your patch inside vkernel I got the following panic. To cause
:a lot of paging to occur I was checking out the src tree from local
:repository inside a vkernel.
:
:mode = 041777, inum = 2813, fs =
:panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
:Trace beginning at frame 0x5e1a68a0
It's unrelated but it is a bug that has been reported off and on for
years. If I can reproduce it in a vkernel I may be able to finally
track it down.
What vkernel config did you use with regards to the memory size
specified and the size of the virtual disk(s) ?
-Matt
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