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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 2007 06:07:27 +0200
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
Subject:   Re: WITNESS & RELENG_6
Message-ID:  <20070104040727.GD21325@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <200701031601.05541.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <20070103141820.GA1014@grosbein.pp.ru> <200701031601.05541.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:01:04PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:18, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> > Hi!
> >=20
> > I try to find bugs in 6.2-PRERELEASE by using it (q) :-)
> > The question is: are kernel options WITNESS/WITNESS_KDB expected
> > to be in usable kernel? I don't worry about performance overhead here.
> >=20
> > The problem is, I've found this is nearly impossible to run
> > my home system with RELENG_6 build from yesterday's sources,
> > X.org 6.9.0, mplayer etc. without panicing and crashdump generation
> > after an hour or so. Just switch from X to vty and logon gave me another
> > LOR and crashdump. One of these you can see here:
> >=20
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/107455
> >=20
> > Perhaps, I should not use these options for everyday STABLE use?
> >=20
> > Eugene
>=20
> I think you are running into devfs bugs actually.

I would suggest that the problem may be in the nvidia driver instead.
It seems to be related to dev cloning.

Anyway, obtaining exact location of fault in devfs_populate_loop (either
with crashdump/kgdb or manually) would be first step.

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