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Date:      Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:58:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Page fault in swp_pager_meta_build()
Message-ID:  <200204290158.g3T1wDh60486@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020428150401.64976L-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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:It currently has no swap started at all, which is one reason I was rather
:puzzled to see this panic:
:
:192.168.50.1:/cboss/devel/nfsroot/crash2.cboss.tislabs.com      / nfs      ro      0       0
:proc            /proc   procfs  rw      0       0
:/dev/ad0s1e     /mnt    ufs     rw      0       0
:...
:Should it even be hitting this code if swap hasn't been enabled?  I've run
:into a couple of other weird bugs and wouldn't be surprised if there is a
:memory allocation problem.  The problem I was actually trying to reproduce
:with these two crash boxes was one where the socket used by NFS get
:zero'd, resulting in a null pointer dereference.  The other one is in odd
:panic in the mutex code during an early VFS operation.
:
:Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project

    The case can be hit but it shouldn't have found any swap to free.
    Huh.  Maybe there is a degenerate case in the swap code that
    blows up if swap is compiled in but no swap has been added.  If the
    problem goes away when you add a tiny amount of swap that would confirm
    it.  What is the 'swhash_mask' global contain?

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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