Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:47:44 -0800 From: Joe Rhett <jrhett@meer.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release? Message-ID: <20041215004744.GJ27283@meer.net> In-Reply-To: <20041213183518.N97507@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20041213052628.GB78120@meer.net> <20041213054159.GC78120@meer.net> <20041213075943.GA3909@meer.net> <20041213102944.D92964@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20041213190532.GA4781@meer.net> <20041213183518.N97507@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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> > > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > > As another side note, is there a reason that 5.3 doesn't reboot after page > > > > faults? The crash and dumpdev man pages still indicate that it should. > > > > This makes this problem hard to work on (must be at facility to debug..) > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > Sorry, 5.3-RELEASE with GENERIC kernel. This is a sandbox ;-) On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:37:29PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > I in fact tested this on Saturday and it in fact rebooted. With GENERIC, > even. The digi driver sort of got left behind with the tty changes and > handed out uninitialized mutexes that trip null pointer panics. Machine > came back up fine, so unless you have some type of panic that screws up > the system enough to disrupt booting then it should work. How do you know which is which? Anything in the page fault to indicate that? So anyway, I guess ATA code being upset is enough to hang it. Not good. -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net
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