the revived code.
vm pages newly allocated are marked busy (PG_BUSY), thus calling
vm_page_delete before the pages has been freed or unbusied will
cause a deadlock since vm_page_object_page_remove will wait for the
busy flag to be cleared. This can be triggered by calling malloc
with size > PAGE_SIZE and the M_NOWAIT flag on systems low on
physical free memory.
A kernel module that reproduces the problem, written by Logan Gabriel
<logan@mail.2cactus.com>, can be found in the freebsd-hackers mail
archive (12 Apr 2001). The problem was recently noticed again by
Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>.
Reviewed by: dillon
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