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Date:      Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:04:43 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crashdumps available for download ... please help 
Message-ID:  <20020917180443.0C6B62A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209171014370.40800-100000@root.org> 

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Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Martin Blapp wrote:
> > Hope this helps people. After I've disabled the secondlevel
> > CPU cache, the panic is now always at the same place:
> > 
> > 0xc02fd315 is in pmap_remove_pages (/usr/src/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c:2941).
> > 2936    #ifdef PMAP_REMOVE_PAGES_CURPROC_ONLY
> > 2937                    pte = vtopte(pv->pv_va);
> > 2938    #else
> > 2939                    pte = pmap_pte_quick(pv->pv_pmap, pv->pv_va);
> > 2940    #endif
> > 2941                    tpte = *pte;
> > 2942
> > 2943                    if (tpte == 0) {
> > 2944                            printf("TPTE at %p  IS ZERO @ VA %08x\n",
> > 2945                                    pte, pv->pv_va);
> 
> Try building your kernel with "options PMAP_REMOVE_PAGES_CURPROC_ONLY" and
> see if the panic goes away.  If that works, the problem is
> pmap_pte_quick().

The problem is that this is hardwired..  line 2902 of pmap.c is:
#define PMAP_REMOVE_PAGES_CURPROC_ONLY

ie: we always use vtopte(), not pmap_pte_quick().

> In looking at pmap_pte_quick, either it is wrong or line 2941 is wrong in
> always dereferencing pte.  pmap_pte_quick can return NULL (well 0).  It
> seems like pmap_pte_quick is wrong because vtopte() never returns NULL,
> just (PTmap + i386_btop(va)) i.e. a valid base plus some offset.
> 
> -Nate
>  
> > Kernelfile:
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/crashes/kernel.debug.bz2 (8 Mb)
> > 
> > Kernelconfig:
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/crashes/kernel.CONFIG
> > 
> > Cores:
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/crashes/vmcore.1.bz2 (5 Mb)
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/crashes/vmcore.2.bz2 (7 Mb)
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/crashes/vmcore.3.bz2 (26 Mb)
> > 
> > Descriptions:
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/crashes/vmcore.1.txt
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/crashes/vmcore.2.txt
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/crashes/vmcore.3.txt
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> 

Cheers,
-Peter
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