From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 6 21:47:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9BE71065696; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 21:47:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D748FC18; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 21:47:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from straycat.dhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o16LlHZj014176; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 21:47:18 GMT (envelope-from tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from tomcat.straycat.dhs.org (tomcat.straycat.dhs.org [192.168.2.213]) by straycat.dhs.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o16LlGcb022709; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 16:47:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B6DE364.8030509@sdf.lonestar.org> Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:47:16 -0500 From: Tom McLaughlin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <4B6B89E7.8030002@sdf.lonestar.org> <201002050827.53343.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201002050827.53343.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:47:19 -0000 John Baldwin wrote, On 02/05/2010 08:27 AM: > On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:00:55 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: >> Hi all, a recent MFC to 7-STABLE has started to cause issues for my VMs >> on VMware ESXi 3.5u4. After loading the mpt driver for the LSI disk >> controller the VM just shuts off. The workaround is to change the disk >> controller to the BusLogic type. Still, it used to work up until last >> week. The change was made around January 26th and based on the commits >> that day I'm guessing it's either r203047 or r203073 >> >> I have the same issue with both amd64 and i386 VMs. This affects HEAD >> and 8-STABLE as well and first affected HEAD over the summer. (I just >> worked around it and went about my business at the time. :-/) I've >> attached a dmesg from a kernel before the problem and one from after it >> started. > > What if you set 'hw.clfush_disable=1' from the loader? > Yes, that corrected it on all my VMs. I've talked to people on ESXi 4 and they do not see the problem. I have yet to try 3.5u5 to see if this is a non-issue. 3.5 will be supported for awhile longer from VMware. I'm going to try upgrading the box during the week. tom -- | tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org tmclaugh at FreeBSD.org | | FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.org |