From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 10 12:23:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F4A106566B for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:23:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rrs@lakerest.net) Received: from lakerest.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:240:585:2:213:d4ff:fef3:2d8d]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E448FC1B for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:23:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.224] (pool-96-249-204-75.snfcca.dsl-w.verizon.net [96.249.204.75]) (authenticated bits=0) by lakerest.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o1ACN7FW095499 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:23:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rrs@lakerest.net) Message-Id: <287D654A-8CC4-416E-BF8C-FEDB5DB77C98@lakerest.net> From: Randall Stewart To: Neel Natu In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:23:02 -0800 References: <98a59be81002092343w74ef718l148f0f6d683285c4@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fix for buildworld hang on XLR X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:23:14 -0000 Neel: Yep I think both JC and I have a system that has over 512M... Mine shows up with abou 3Gig of memory.. thats because some of the physical addresses are above 4Gig.. which we can't handle.. and ignore for now. I will try JC's patch and see how far I get.. (JC: glad you found the rge bug... I will let you know where I get :-D) R On Feb 9, 2010, at 11:53 PM, Neel Natu wrote: > Hi JC, > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:43 PM, C. Jayachandran > wrote: >> Hi Randall, >> >> Looks like the buildworld hang was caused by a bug in the GMAC >> driver. >> In some cases an additional zero length descriptor was getting added >> to the descriptor list which makes the GMAC go into underrun >> condition. Can you see if this fix works for you? >> >> The patch is at http://sites.google.com/site/cjayachandran/files/rge.c.diff >> >> I still get a crash in pmap_enter during buildworld after quite a >> long >> time. It seems that de-referencing the pte in some cases crashes. I'm >> looking at it. >> > > How much memory do you have installed on your system? Is any of that > memory mapped above 512MB (physical)? > > best > Neel > >> Regards, >> JC. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org >> " >> > ------------------------------ Randall Stewart 803-317-4952 (cell) 803-345-0391(direct)