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Date:      Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:37:28 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Ruslan Bukin <ruslan.bukin@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc:        Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu>, Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r308691 - in head/sys: cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs fs/tmpfs kern vm
Message-ID:  <20161118103728.GE54029@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20161118102235.GA40554@bsdpad.com>
References:  <201611151822.uAFIMoj2092581@repo.freebsd.org> <20161116133718.GA10251@bsdpad.com> <20161116165343.GX54029@kib.kiev.ua> <20161116165939.GA12498@bsdpad.com> <20161116175210.GA13203@bsdpad.com> <9047aad0-0713-5d7a-f92e-6f931642bb27@rice.edu> <20161118102235.GA40554@bsdpad.com>

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On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:22:35AM +0000, Ruslan Bukin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:51:40AM -0600, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On 11/16/2016 11:52, Ruslan Bukin wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 04:59:39PM +0000, Ruslan Bukin wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 06:53:43PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > >>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 01:37:18PM +0000, Ruslan Bukin wrote:
> > >>>> I have a panic with this on RISC-V. Any ideas ?
> > >>> How did you checked that the revision you replied to, makes the problem ?
> > >>> Note that the backtrace below is not reasonable.
> > >> I reverted this commit like that and rebuilt kernel:
> > >> git show 2fa36073055134deb2df39c7ca46264cfc313d77 | patch -p1 -R
> > >>
> > >> So the problem is reproducible on dual-core with 32mb mdroot.
> > >>
> > > I just found another interesting behavior:
> > > depending on amount of physical memory :
> > > 700m - panic
> > > 800m - works fine
> > > 1024m - panic
> > 
> > I think that this behavior is not inconsistent with your report of the
> > system crashing if you enabled two cores but not one.  Specifically,
> > changing the number of active cores will slightly affect the amount of
> > memory that is allocated during initialization.
> > 
> > There is nothing unusual in the sysctl output that you sent out.
> > 
> > I have two suggestions.  Try these in order.
> > 
> > 1. r308691 reduced the size of struct vm_object.  Try undoing the one
> > snippet that reduced the vm object size and see if that makes a difference.
> > 
> > 
> > @@ -118,7 +118,6 @@
> >  	vm_ooffset_t backing_object_offset;/* Offset in backing object */
> >  	TAILQ_ENTRY(vm_object) pager_object_list; /* list of all objects of this pager type */
> >  	LIST_HEAD(, vm_reserv) rvq;	/* list of reservations */
> > -	struct vm_radix cache;		/* (o + f) root of the cache page radix trie */
> >  	void *handle;
> >  	union {
> >  		/*
> > 
> > 
> > 2. I'd like to know if vm_page_scan_contig() is being called.
> > 
> > Finally, to simply the situation a little, I would suggest that you
> > disable superpage reservations in vmparam.h.  You have no need for them.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I made another one merge from svn-head and problem disappeared for 700m,1024m of physical memory, but now I able to reproduce it with 900m of physical memory.
> 
> Restoring 'struct vm_radix cache' in struct vm_object gives no behavior changes.
> 
> Adding a panic() call to vm_page_scan_contig gives an original panic (so vm_page_scan_contig is not called),
> it looks like size of function is changed and it unhides the original problem.
> 
> Disable superpage reservations changes behavior and gives same panic on 1024m boot.
> 
> Finally, if I comment ruxagg call in kern_resource then I can't reproduce the problem any more with any amount of memory in any setup:
> 
> --- a/sys/kern/kern_resource.c
> +++ b/sys/kern/kern_resource.c
> @@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ rufetch(struct proc *p, struct rusage *ru)
>         *ru = p->p_ru;
>         if (p->p_numthreads > 0)  {
>                 FOREACH_THREAD_IN_PROC(p, td) {
> -                       ruxagg(p, td);
> +                       //ruxagg(p, td);
>                         rucollect(ru, &td->td_ru);
>                 }
>         }
> 
> I found this patch in my early RISC-V development directory, so it looks the problem persist whole the freebsd/riscv life, but was hidden until now.
> 

If you comment out the rufetch() call in proc0_post(), does the problem go
away as well ?

I suggest to start with fixing the backtrace anyway, because the backtrace
you posted is wrong.



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