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Date:      Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:26:25 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Randall Stewart <rrs@cisco.com>
Cc:        Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AMD64 panic on boot
Message-ID:  <470B3B31.10307@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <470AE40D.7090006@cisco.com>
References:  <470AE33B.7000806@cisco.com> <470AE40D.7090006@cisco.com>

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Randall Stewart wrote:
> Randall Stewart wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I just updated to the latest.. and I am seeing a crash on
>> boot up of my 8-core Xeon machines (running in AMD mode).
>>
>> its a
>>
>> pagefault UA= 0x2b
>>
>> sysctl_handle_int+0x27
>> syscall+0x254
>> Xfast_syscall+0xab
>>
>> IP= 0xffffffff8048e7d7
>>
>>
>> I can't get a core unfortunately.. I get a core device
>> unavailable..
>>
>> I have one of the machines sitting in a DDB> prompt
>> and its twin sitting on the old kernel..
>>
>> Let me know how I can help.. and in the mean time I will poke
>> around in kgdb on the running machine :-)
>>
>> R
> Hmm.. it appears to be in..
> 0xffffffff8048e2e7 is in sysctl_handle_int 
> (../../../kern/kern_sysctl.c:816).
> 811              */
> 812             if (arg1)
> 813                     tmpout = *(int *)arg1;
> 814             else
> 815                     tmpout = arg2;
> 816             error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, &tmpout, sizeof(int));
> 817
> 818             if (error || !req->newptr)
> 819                     return (error);
> 
> 
> So its trying to copy out and faulting.. not sure what..
> 
> Let me know if there is some info I can poke out of DDB
> 
> R
> 
> 

I also saw a page fault from sysctl -a the other day...I thought it 
might be my fault (from my p4 branch, not cvs) but didnt investigate. 
Maybe it wasn't.

Kris



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