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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun,  5 Oct 2008 12:30:16 -0400
To: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com, 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] panic
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> Sorry about that.  We're soaking a version of the kernel that includes
> a reference count in the Block struct.  It's so far used by the
> Ethernet drivers, IP stack and USB code, and usbohci.c escaped a
> little too early.
>
> I've just pushed out a newer allocb.c to sources that initializes the
> refence count at allocation.

the new version of port/allocb.c panics my terminal early in the boot
process.  unfortunately, i'm going to have to buy another serial card
to debug this, so i won't have any information for a while.  what i
do know is the panic is "ref -1" from freeb and the caller is readq.

- erik