On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 08:33:31PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
>
> Just got that panic, on a dual-core i386.
> It happened during heavy file system activity while
> accelerated X apps were active. I've seen a couple
> of DDB traps in that situation in recent days, but
> was never able to get a coredump before.
>
> What could cause that panic? splxxx() use in interrupt
> context?
My guess is the problem was a missing splx() in an error-handling case.
You got busy-enough to trigger a transient error, and so you found a bad
error-handlng path. Somewhere. :-(
Take care,
Bill