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Date:      Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:27:18 +0100
From:      Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mbuf revision, testers/comments wanted.
Message-ID:  <20090208202718.256db562@fabiankeil.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090208083321.M983@desktop>
References:  <20090131125100.N983@desktop> <20090201160544.4f1961b4@fabiankeil.de> <20090201170550.482bf325@fabiankeil.de> <20090202094226.E983@desktop> <20090208152647.3e4316d1@fabiankeil.de> <20090208083321.M983@desktop>

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Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Fabian Keil wrote:
>=20
> > Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net> wrote:

> >> I have updated the patch here:
> >>
> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/mbuf_ref2.diff
> >>
> >> This resolves the !INVARIANTS bug and improves the style as you sugges=
ted.
> >
> > I run into several system hangs (or maybe panics) yesterday,
> > mostly with Xorg running so I didn't get any details.
> >
> > I got one on the console though. After running a regression
> > test that opens multiple HTTP connections to the loop back
> > device, I used rsync to restore some files that were damaged by
> > an earlier hang. That lead to a page fault in em_start_locked().
> >
> > While I dumped core from the debugger,
> > savecore didn't find the dump afterwards.
> >
> > Anyway, there's a screen shot available at:
> > http://www.fabiankeil.de/bilder/freebsd/mbuf-patch-page-fault-em_start_=
locked.jpg
>=20
> Can you open gdb on kernel.debug and tell me what:
>=20
> list *(em_start_locked+0x1e5)
>=20
> outputs?

Unfortunately I didn't keep the kernel.debug for the
patched kernel around. For my current kernel I get:

fk@TP51 ~ $gdb /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THINKPAD/kernel.debug=20
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain condition=
s.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...
(gdb) list *(em_start_locked+0x1e5)
0xc0529eb5 is in em_start_locked (/usr/src/sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c:1003).
998             if (!adapter->link_active)
999                     return;
1000   =20
1001            while (!IFQ_DRV_IS_EMPTY(&ifp->if_snd)) {
1002   =20
1003                    IFQ_DRV_DEQUEUE(&ifp->if_snd, m_head);
1004                    if (m_head =3D=3D NULL)
1005                            break;
1006                    /*
1007                     *  Encapsulation can modify our pointer, and or ma=
ke it

Not sure if it's any good ...

Fabian

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