From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jun 14 22:50:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA44037B408 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5F5o3m99286; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200106150550.f5F5o3m99286@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Bill Fumerola Subject: Re: kern/28163: in_pcballoc Panic in RELENG_4 with large memory. _Not_ Related to swap_pager Reply-To: Bill Fumerola Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/28163; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bill Fumerola To: Simon Shapiro Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/28163: in_pcballoc Panic in RELENG_4 with large memory. _Not_ Related to swap_pager Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:45:25 -0500 On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:25:28PM -0700, Simon Shapiro wrote: > >Description: > Regardless of the swap_pager problem (which apppears new since 4.2), > the kernel will panic immediately after mounting the root fs. > It appears to have a NULL poiner passed to in_pcballoc. > >How-To-Repeat: > Boot any FreeBSD 4.2 and above on a machine with lots of memory. > >Fix: > none :-( so it panics, but you don't include the string[1]. it has a traceback, but you don't include it. on top of that you provide a way of "repeating" the problem that is so obviously ambigious that it couldn't even be considered helpful. do you expect someone to even look at this PR or is it just a way to get some anger off your chest? if its the latter, let us know so we can close this... -- Bill Fumerola - security yahoo / Yahoo! inc. - fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org 1. in_pcb.c::in_pcballoc() doesn't even have a panic() in it, unless something it calls panic()s. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message