From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 19:23:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B243B1065672 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:23:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@acm.org) Received: from mail30.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail30.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.133.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404CA8FC08 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:23:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-116-103.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.116.103]) by mail30.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q0IJMkYK009363 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:22:47 +1100 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0IJMkpN076327; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:22:46 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.5/8.14.4/Submit) id q0IJMj5V076326; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:22:45 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:22:44 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Marius Strobl Message-ID: <20120118192244.GA76300@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20111216084048.GA98967@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20111216103720.GA853@alchemy.franken.de> <20111216111922.GA99512@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20111216161031.GA2371@alchemy.franken.de> <20120106112126.GA69964@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120110134600.GA7617@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120111194134.GC44286@alchemy.franken.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120111194134.GC44286@alchemy.franken.de> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: r223378 panic [Re: sparc64 r228561 panic: kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3] X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:23:16 -0000 --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2012-Jan-11 20:41:34 +0100, Marius Strobl wr= ote: >So far I didn't have time to look into this. I suspect the issue >has to do with the holes USIIIi machines tend to have in their >physical memory layout. For a b1k5 with 2GB RAM such a hole might >be large enough to trigger some bug in the VM but not trigger >with 4GB or as in my case with 1GB. I have tried 1GB, 2GB & 4GB in my SB1500 and the problem only shows up with 2GB RAM. I've put details in a followup to sparc64/164227 --=20 Peter Jeremy --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk8XHAQACgkQ/opHv/APuIcSQgCfQQ0SvRP2uVaByiSS4tSGasa/ nPwAoKFZISlQgQpUZq93yT4UpFhrkisk =b23B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--