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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:31:26 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_PRACA?= <frederic.praca@freebsd-fr.org>
Subject:   Re: Kernel crash on Asus A7N8X-X
Message-ID:  <200803060831.27056.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1204671599.47cdd46f6b1e2@imp.free.fr>
References:  <1204671599.47cdd46f6b1e2@imp.free.fr>

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On Tuesday 04 March 2008 05:59:59 pm Fr=E9d=E9ric PRACA wrote:
> Hello dear hackers,
> I own a Asus A7N8X-X motherboard (NForce2 chipset) with a Radeon 9600 vid=
eo
> card. After upgrading from 6.3 to 7.0, I launched xorg which crashed the
> kernel. After looking in the kernel core dump, I found that the
> agp_nvidia_flush_tlb function of /usr/src/sys/pci/agp_nvidia.c crashed on
> the line 377. The loop fails from the beginning (when i=3D=3D0). I commen=
ted
> out the two last loops and it seems to work now but as I didn't understand
> what is this code for, I'd like to have some explanation about it and want
> to know if someone got the same problem.

The Linux AGP driver has the same code.  It appears to be forcing a read of=
=20
the TLB registers to force prior writes to clear the TLB entries to flush=20
perhaps?  I'm not sure why you are getting a panic.  What kind of fault did=
=20
you get?  (The original kernel panic messages would be needed.)

=2D-=20
John Baldwin



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