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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2001 20:59:08 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Tim Wiess <twiess@ahaza.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with Dual Athlons 
Message-ID:  <20011124045909.F2966380D@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20011123144529.A5628@ahaza.com> 

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You have neglected to include some critical information, such as what
OS you are running.

I am wondering if you are running into the 4.4-RELEASE kernel stack overflow
problems.

Tim Wiess wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've recently put together a dual Athlon system, and unfortunately so far I
> have had nothing but problems running FreeBSD on it. I have gone through many
> of the archives in the hackers, bugs, and smp lists, and while most indicate
> that they have had much success running FreeBSD on dual Athlons, there have
> been a few cases which were similar to mine. Basically, I am unable to run
> the system for more than 30 minutes without getting a panic.
> 
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> mp_lock = 01000002; cpuid = 1; lapic.id = 00000000
> fault virtual address   = 0xa0a
> fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xc02218e8
> stack pointer           = 0x10:0xff80fbc0
> frame pointer           = 0x10:0xff80fbc0
> code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                         = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process         = Idle
> interrupt mask          = bio   <- SMP: XXX
> 
> The instruction pointer points to the worklist_insert routine in the
> soft updates code. Although I don't think that it's the file system that's
> really the source of the problem, since I believe I've seen different
> instruction pointers listed for the same type of panic.
> 
> In the other cases I was reading about, their panics were also caused by a
> page fault. Unfortunately it didn't seem like the source of the problem was
> ever really located. So I thought I would run this by you all and see if
> anyone had any additional thoughts or suggestions.
> 
> For the record, I'm running the 1.2Ghz Athlons on a Tyan S2460 board with
> 256MB of 266Mhz DDR-SDRAM.
> 
> thanks
> 
> tim
> 
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Cheers,
-Peter
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