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Date:      Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:04:59 +0200
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Andreas Tobler <andreast@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Milan Obuch <freebsd-current@dino.sk>
Subject:   Re: nullfs broken on powerpc
Message-ID:  <20120125210459.GQ2726@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4F206D6A.3030302@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:00:26PM +0100, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> On 25.01.12 21:29, Eitan Adler wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Milan Obuch<freebsd-current@dino.sk> =
=20
> >wrote:
> >>On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:21:23 +0200
> >>Kostik Belousov<kostikbel@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 06:31:52PM +0100, Milan Obuch wrote:
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>
> >>[ snip ]
> >>
> >>>>This does not work with powerpc for me. With sources csup'ped this
> >>>>morning, full system rebuild with GENERIC kernel, it is enough for
> >>>>me to issue
> >>>>
> >>>>mount_nullfs /data/src10 /usr/src
> >>>>csup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
> >>>>
> >>>>and system panic occurs, with following on system console:
> >>>>
> >>>>panic: mtx_lock() of spin mutex (null)
> >>>>@ /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:2670 cpuid =3D 0
> >>>>KDB: enter: panic
> >>>>[ thread pid 1442 tid 100095 ]
> >>>>Stopped at 0x40f734: addi r0, r0, 0x0
> >>>>db>
> >>>>
> >>>>At this point, I am able to interact with system, the question for
> >>>>me is what I want to get from it :) I tried bt with following
> >>>>result:
> >>>>
> >>>>Tracing pid 1442 tid 100095 td 0x2d6b000
> >>>>0xe22c26d0: at panic+0x274
> >>>>0xe22c2730: at _mtx_lock_flags+0xc4
> >>>>0xe22c2760: at vgonel+0x330
> >>>>0xe22c27b0: at vrecycle+0x54
> >>>>0xe22c27d0: at null_inactive+0x30
> >>>>0xe22c27f0: at VOP_INACTIVE_APV+0xdc
> >>>>0xe22c2810: at vinactive+0x98
> >>>>0xe22c2850: at vputx+0x344
> >>>>0xe22c28a0: at vput+0x18
> >>>>0xe22c28c0: at kern_statat_vnhook+0x108
> >>>>0xe22c29d0: at kern_statat+0x18
> >>>>0xe22c29f0: at kern_lstat+0x2c
> >>>>0xe22c2a10: at sys_lstat+0x30
> >>>>0xe22c2a90: at trap+0x388
> >>>>0xe22c2b60: at powerpc_interrupt+0x108
> >>>>0xe22c2b90: user SC trap by _end+0x40d88c70: srr1=3D0xd032
> >>>>             r1=3D0xffaf9a70 cr=3D0x28004044 xer=3D0x20000000
> >>>>ctr=3D0x41a0ac40
> >>>>db>
> >>>>
> >>>>Does this shed any light for someone with more knowledge here? My
> >>>>gut feeling is there is some endianness issue at play, the same
> >>>>nullfs usage works for me flawlessly on both i386 and amd64
> >>>>systems, so it could not be 32 vs 64 bit issue at least.
> >>>>
> >>>>At line 2670 of /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c I see end of function
> >>>>void vgonel(struct vnode *vp)
> >>>>
> >>>>         VI_LOCK(vp);
> >>>>         vp->v_vnlock =3D&vp->v_lock;
> >>>>         vp->v_op =3D&dead_vnodeops;
> >>>>         vp->v_tag =3D "none";
> >>>>         vp->v_type =3D VBAD;
> >>>>}
> >>>>
> >>>>so the question seems to be reduced to 'why is vp null?' or is my
> >>>>small attempt on analyse flawed...
> >>
> >>>I do not think that the vp is null. It more look like the *vp memory
> >>>was zeroed. This has very low chances of being related to endianess,
> >>>and more like a kernel memory corruption.
> >>>
> >>>Take a dump and print the content of *vp.
> >>
> >>How could I look into memory? I found page
> >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-onl=
ine-ddb.html
> >>and I can see registers (show reg), use x with absolute addresses, but
> >>something like 'x vp' tells just 'Symbol not known' - should I somehow
> >>load symbol table into memory? But backtrace shows function names... or
> >>should I somehow modify GENERIC kernel to include more debugging info?
> >>Kernel debugging is a bit new for me, even if I can write simple
> >>modification into kernel, but only in some special (and narrow) area of
> >>code...
> >
> >>From ddb write 'call doadump'. Provided you have a proper dump device
> >set up in rc.conf it should work. You could then use kgdb from a
> >running computer to analyze the dump in more detail.
>=20
> This only works if your target is booke, AIM (Apple based machines) do=20
> not have the 'call doadump' implemented yet. It is somewhere on my long=
=20
> todo list.
FWIW, it is not 'call doadump', it is just 'dump' for some time.
I think calling doadump does not work.

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