Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:20:34 -0400 From: Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ALPHA4 panic in VM Message-ID: <20180919212034.GD99168@raichu> In-Reply-To: <20180919211156.GA1677@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20180919200152.GA1164@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20180919210211.GC99168@raichu> <20180919211156.GA1677@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:11:56PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 05:02:11PM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 01:01:52PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > I have the kernel and core file if more information is needed.
> > >
> > > % cat info.2
> > > Dump header from device: /dev/ada0p3
> > Architecture: amd64
> > > Architecture Version: 2
> > > Dump Length: 2348281856
> > > Blocksize: 512
> > > Compression: none
> > > Dumptime: Wed Sep 19 12:29:59 2018
> > > Hostname: troutmask.apl.washington.edu
> > > Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump
> > > Version String: FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA4 #0 r338505: Thu Sep 6 13:45:34 PDT 2018
> > > kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/SPEW
> > > Panic String: page fault
> > > Dump Parity: 2676008548
> > > Bounds: 2
> > > Dump Status: good
> > >
> > > % more core.txt.2
> > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> > > cpuid = 1; apic id = 11
> > > fault virtual address = 0xffffb8000719a428
> >
> > This seems to be the result of a bit-flip. cred is 0xffffb8000719a400,
> > which is almost but not quite in the direct map. In particular we have:
> >
> > (kgdb) frame 10
> > #10 0xffffffff8083e07d in vm_object_destroy (object=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_object.c:703
> > 703 swap_release_by_cred(object->charge, object->cred);
> > (kgdb) p object
> > $8 = <optimized out>
> > (kgdb) p *(vm_object_t)$r13
> > $9 = {
> > ...
> > cred = 0xffffb8000719a400,
> > charge = 28672,
> > umtx_data = 0x0
> > }
> > (kgdb) p *(struct ucred *)0xfffff8000719a400
> > $10 = {
> > cr_ref = 5737,
> > cr_uid = 1001,
> > cr_ruid = 1001,
> > cr_svuid = 1001,
> > cr_ngroups = 7,
> > cr_rgid = 1001,
> > cr_svgid = 1001,
> > cr_uidinfo = 0xfffff80007285500,
> > cr_ruidinfo = 0xfffff80007285500,
> > cr_prison = 0xffffffff80a9de10 <prison0>,
> > ... <more sane-looking ucred fields>
> >
> > That is, flipping one of the bits in the fault address leads me to a
> > valid ucred. This could in principle be the result of a software bug,
> > but I'd be more inclined to suspect the hardware.
>
> Mark,
>
> Thanks for looking into the problem. This system has
> been running for probably 2 years or so without issues.
> I guess it's time to pull out memtest86+ (or similar)
> to see if hardware is starting to fail.
I'm not sure whether you're using ECC RAM, but if not, the system is
susceptible to silent random bit flips.
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