How best to debug locking/scheduler problems

[Mel Flynn]

Hi,

I'm trying to get to the bottom of a bug with getpeername() and certain kde4 
applications which is probably as low-level as the libthr and the scheduler.

From browsing various related files in sys/kern it seems KTR is a good bet to 
get the information needed, yet it isn't really well supported in userland. 
For one, I've got no clue other then logging console output(?) how to retrieve 
the lock info or filter it in userland from reading ktr(9) and alq(9). Gdb is 
useless as the process doesn't give the information gdb wants and gdb just 
hangs in wait. ktrace also does not provide anything as there are no more 
syscalls being made, so I'll have to get to the bottom of this by tracing and 
filtering.

Short description of the problem:
a process never gets out of mi_switch and remains locked even init tries to 
shut it down.

% procstat -t 4283

  PID    TID COMM             TDNAME           CPU  PRI STATE   WCHAN    
 4283 100215 kdeinit4         -                  0  128 lock    *unp_mtx  
% procstat -k 4283

  PID    TID COMM             TDNAME           KSTACK                       
 4283 100215 kdeinit4         -                mi_switch turnstile_wait 
_mtx_lock_sleep uipc_peeraddr kern_getpeername getpeername syscall 
Xint0x80_syscall 
% ps -ww 4283
  PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
 4283  ??  T      0:00.38 kdeinit4: kdeinit4: kio_http http 
local:/tmp/ksocket-mel/klauncherxJ1635.slave-socket local:/tmp/ksocket-
mel/plasmayC1653.slave-socket (kdeinit4)

%ls -l /tmp/ksocket-mel/

total 2
-rw-rw-r--  1 mel  wheel  62 Jun 14 22:55 KSMserver__0
srw-------  1 mel  wheel   0 Jun 14 22:55 kdeinit4__0
srwxrwxr-x  1 mel  wheel   0 Jun 14 22:55 klauncherxJ1635.slave-socket

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Mel