From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] bugs, races, more bugs
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:33:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc1d2b377192b7744bb973a9576d6e9c@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
Timing out arp entries uncovered some bugs that we
hadn't noticed before plus I added one with the
timeouts. The symptom was quiescent connections
timing out. Fixed in ip/arp.c.
We also found a few races between packets being rerouted
and IP stacks being torn down. The symptom was
a null dereference in ip.c crashing the kernel.
Fixed in ip/ip.c, ip/ipifc.c, ip/iproute.c,
ip/ipv6.c. I left an assert in ip.c to make
the race more obvious in case we haven't stomped
on it yet.
Finally, I updated port/proc.c and port/devproc.c
with suggestions on scheduler changes from the list.
Processes trapped at low priority levels now float
up. Also, sleep(0) now drops a process' priority
one level each call so that processes doing something
like:
while(condition not true)
sleep(0);
should dip down below whatever its waiting for.
I've been testing it on all our systems for a few
days and haven't seen a problem. However, I never trust
this stuff till a wider audience tries it. Could
people that didn't do well with the last version
try this out soon?
next reply other threads:[~2003-03-18 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-18 2:33 David Presotto [this message]
2003-03-18 14:53 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-03-18 15:17 ` Lucio De Re
2003-03-18 15:19 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-03-18 15:51 ` Lucio De Re
2003-03-18 15:56 ` David Presotto
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