Re: [HACKERS] Deadlock in XLogInsert at AIX

Hi Tony,

Hi Konstantin

I've discussed the "zombie/exit" issue with our expert here.

- He does not think that AIX has anything special here

- If the process is marked <exiting> in ps, this is because the flag SEXIT is set, thus the process is blocked somewhere in the kexitx() syscall, waiting for something.

- In order to know what it is waiting for, the best would be to have a look with kdb.

kdb shows the following stack:

pvthread+073000 STACK:
[005E1958]slock+000578 (00000000005E1958, 8000000000001032 [??])
[00009558].simple_lock+000058 ()
[00651DBC]vm_relalias+00019C (??, ??, ??, ??, ??)
[006544AC]vm_map_entry_delete+00074C (??, ??, ??)
[00659C30]vm_map_delete+000150 (??, ??, ??, ??)
[00659D88]vm_map_deallocate+000048 (??, ??)
[0011C588]kexitx+001408 (??)
[000BB08C]kexit+00008C ()
___ Recovery (FFFFFFFFFFF9290) ___
WARNING: Eyecatcher/version mismatch in RWA

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