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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2001 21:32:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
Subject:   RE: state of -current
Message-ID:  <15113.49567.885902.155179@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <15113.25584.137152.821338@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin writes:
 > 
 > John Baldwin writes:
 >  > 
 >  > > When doing this, I noticed that non-SMP alpha kernels will no longer
 >  > > boot multi-user due to a recently forked process showing up a
 >  > > 'curproc' during a hardclock intr.  The process hasn't been fully
 >  > > setup and accessing some fields in its proc struct causes a trap with
 >  > > a stack like this:
 > 
 > <...>
 > 
 >  > Well, my alpha is running a UP kernel that is after the last big SMP commmit
 >  > where I shuffled things around to MI places and what not.  Right now I'm still
 >  > trying to review Alfred's patch.  Once vm is back to working at all I'll try
 >  > and look at this one as it may be my fault.
 > 
 > I think I may be going crazy.  I can no longer get this to happen.
 > Booting a kernel that triggered it yesterday no longer triggers it
 > today.   Ahhhhhhaa!
 > 

I think I've finally figured things out:.  mfs and a mismatched
kernel/userland strikes again

I've been booting my test kernels on a 4.3 box.  With an mfs mount in
/etc/fstab and a 4.3 mount_mfs sitting in /sbin.  As soon as the mfs
mount occurs, things go to hell in a handbasket and lots of memory
gets trashed.  I don't know why it doesn't happen for SMP kernels and
pre SMP integration kernels -- we just "lucky" and some other memory
is trashed there, I guess.

At any rate, -current seems to work on alpha.    


Sorry for blaming this on the SMP integration work.  Boy, do I feel dumb.

Drew


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