Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 11:06:13 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>, dene@ilovedene.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash Message-ID: <201205301106.13885.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <op.wete9wbq34t2sn@tech304> References: <op.wbwe9s0k34t2sn@tech304> <CAJ-Vmoneopo8xNpThbewfE2tg6HrdH74DXurO38P_aVs=YS9%2BA@mail.gmail.com> <op.wete9wbq34t2sn@tech304>
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On Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:47:46 am Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above > > information in it so we don't lose it? > > > > I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently > fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our > business uses FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent > fix as much as anyone else :-) > > The reason I've hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any > truly useful or concrete evidence of where the problem lies. After Dane > Foster contacted me and told me he could recreate the crash on demand with > his workload it was easier to narrow things down. The suggestion that it > was an interrupts issue (by possibly Bjoern Zeeb?) and Dane's discovery > that his crashes ceased when em0 and mpt0 share an IRQ, but em0 is > completely unused was starting to prove there is some strong evidence here > in favor of the interrupts issue. > > Dane, what's the status on your end? Has your fix still been successful? > Is it also stable if you simply set hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="1" ? Hmm, so the set of ps output you have from DDB shows a lot of runnable processes and swi6 (Giant taskq) as the only running thread (all consistent with your hang). (And that is from your Ctrl-Alt-Esc) Do you only have one CPU in this VM? If not, do you know which threads the other CPUs were running (e.g. do you have ps7.png, etc.)? -- John Baldwin
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