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Date:      Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:20:17 +0100
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        Sean Thomas Caron <scaron@umich.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Occasional kernel panic + reboot on 7.0-RELEASE with fatm driver.
Message-ID:  <20081109182017.GB76319@alchemy.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081106131717.331718q66y289lgk@web.mail.umich.edu>
References:  <20081106131717.331718q66y289lgk@web.mail.umich.edu>

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On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 01:17:17PM -0500, Sean Thomas Caron wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm using fatm on FreeBSD/sparc64 7.0-RELEASE; it generally works well  
> but every couple of weeks the system will kernel panic and reboot. I  
> switched on kernel dumps on panic and here's what I got (this time):
> 
> sonnet.diablonet.net> kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0
> kgdb: kvm_nlist(_stopped_cpus):
> kgdb: kvm_nlist(_stoppcbs):
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> This GDB was configured as "sparc64-marcel-freebsd".
> 
> Unread portion of the kernel message buffer:
> panic: trap: fast data access mmu miss

<...>

This apparently is a NULL-pointer dereference (probably "m"
in sbsndptr()), with the cause being in one of the stacks
involved. I'd suggest to report this backtrace to the atm@
and net@ lists.

Marius




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