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Date:      Tue, 7 Feb 2006 06:44:09 -0800
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Olivier Houchard <cognet@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: New pts code triggers panics on amd64 systems.
Message-ID:  <20060207144409.GA48597@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060207132335.W37594@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20060201235556.GA708@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060207104411.GA1067@flame.pc> <20060207132335.W37594@fledge.watson.org>

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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:26:24PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> Does the instability occur if kern.pts.enable=0, or only when 
> kern.pts.enable=1?  If 0, if you back out the user space changes but leave 
> tty_pts.c compiled into the kernel, do the instability issues persist?  How 
> about with the kernel code compiled out, but the user space code in place?
> 

I opened a critial PR about this problem.  There is
a backtrace from a kernel panic that shows that there
is either a latent bug in devfs uncovered by pts code
or the pts code is stomping on memory.  I still have the
vmcore.0 file and I may have the matching kernel.

-- 
Steve



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