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Date:      Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:59:14 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Finch <dot@dotat.at>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG, fanf@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Subject:   Re: UFS panic on -stable
Message-ID:  <20020302135914.A33051@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020301175632.A21599@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:56:32PM -0800
References:  <200202260141.g1Q1f8i28365@beastie.mckusick.com> <200202260237.aa51774@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20020226184340.A78562@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020228135233.B5586@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020301173740.A21179@xor.obsecurity.org> <200203020150.g221oWS48392@apollo.backplane.com> <20020301175632.A21599@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:56:32PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:50:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>=20
> >     I wonder if this has anything to do with MFS's VM pages getting
> >     paged in and out.
> >=20
> >     Could you try hacking mount_mfs to mlock() the MFS memory?  As
> >     shown below.  I'm not entirely sure this will actually do anything,
> >     but it's worth a shot (assuming you have enough memory to cover all
> >     your MFS mounted filesystems).
> >=20
> >     If this does the trick I'll take a look at the way MFS accesses
> >     the process's VM space.  If it doesn't at least we will know it
> >     isn't related to MFS's paging.
>=20
> Will try!
>=20
> I've also given up on trying to get packages built for now, and am
> just running some MFS stress tests to try and trigger panics.

So much for the MFS theory:

/x: bad dir ino 1006899 at offset 0: mangled entry
panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir
Debugger("panic")
Stopped at      Debugger+0x35:  movb    $0,in_Debugger.426
db>

/x is a local UFS filesystem.

Kris
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