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Date:      Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:02:58 -0800
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mtrash_ctor panic caused by ACPI and ATAng   was Re: Interrupts, ATAng, and wayward pointers, oh my!
Message-ID:  <20040209190258.GA45929@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040209100947.K47197@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20040205231737.GB17451@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20040206231933.GA25826@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20040206224459.G20729@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040207070653.GA28676@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20040209100947.K47197@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:10:26AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> > Yes, intriguing.  I used the better part of 1 day to eliminate
> > possibilities for the problem.  I forgot to mention the problem
> > does not depend on APIC or no APIC support in the kernel.
> >
> > > > PS: No, I can't get a core dump because the disk subsystem isn't
> > > >     ready for a dump when the panics occurred and I can't hook
> > > >     up a serial console.  I can panic the machine as needed.
> > >
> > > You can say 'set dumpdev=/dev/foo0s1b' in loader to set the dump target.
> > >
> >
> > This doesn't work unless I can get a near instantaneous dump. That is,
> > db> call dumpsys
> > returns in under a second.  Revision 1.19 of ata-queue.c (note the
> > typo of ata-queue.h above) reworked the locking of ATA.  I suspect
> > that my laptop is tickling some race that Soren hasn't seen.
> 
> try 'call doadump()'
> 

db> call doadump()
Dumping 511 MB

Dump failed.  Partition too small.
0x23

/dev/ad0s3b is a 1 GB swap partition.  I guess I'm going to
have to try to find a serial cable or simply run without ACPI.

-- 
Steve



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