multimedia/vlc causes a panic if media files are on msdosfs

[Oliver Pinter]

can you run memtest?

On 11/21/09, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin at gwdg.de> wrote:
> On 20.11.2009 16:59 (UTC+1), Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> On 20.11.2009 20:26 (UTC+1), Aditya Sarawgi wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:01:23PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:30:33PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>>>>> Please see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140648 for more
>>>>> information, including a trace.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is also some evidence that the same problem is triggered by
>>>>> accessing files on an NTFS partition. The VLC folks have suggested
>>>>> that the problem may be related to threading.
>>>> This is because msdosfs and ntfs are not mpsafe, and it seems that
>>>> VLC using recently added F_RDAHEAD/F_READAHEAD fcntls.
>>>>
>>>> Please try this.
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c b/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c
>>>> index 434f54a..676de65 100644
>>>> --- a/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c
>>>> +++ b/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c
>>>> @@ -718,14 +718,15 @@ kern_fcntl(struct thread *td, int fd, int cmd,
>>>> intptr_t arg)
>>>>              do {
>>>>                  new = old = fp->f_flag;
>>>>                  new |= FRDAHEAD;
>>>> -            } while (atomic_cmpset_rel_int(&fp->f_flag, old, new) ==
>>>> 0);
>>>> +            } while (!atomic_cmpset_rel_int(&fp->f_flag, old, new));
>>>>  readahead_vnlock_fail:
>>>>              VFS_UNLOCK_GIANT(vfslocked);
>>>> +            vfslocked = 0;
>>>>          } else {
>>>>              do {
>>>>                  new = old = fp->f_flag;
>>>>                  new &= ~FRDAHEAD;
>>>> -            } while (atomic_cmpset_rel_int(&fp->f_flag, old, new) ==
>>>> 0);
>>>> +            } while (!atomic_cmpset_rel_int(&fp->f_flag, old, new));
>>>>          }
>>>>          fdrop(fp, td);
>>>>          break;
>>>
>>> I have been getting panics with VLC on UFS filesytem too, Although the
>>> frequency of panics on a UFS filesystem is pretty low as compared to
>>> msdosfs and ntfs systems and they are very abrupt. I will try getting
>>> a trace.
>>
>> I am observing panics also with newest vlc port on ufs2. System panics
>> whenever playing .flv files.
>
> With this patch even my panics went away :-)
>
> Thank you very much,
> Rainer Hurling
>
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