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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2006 20:49:08 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP and IP_PREEMPTION
Message-ID:  <20060307014908.GA57241@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200603061555.18613.joao@matik.com.br>
References:  <200603061349.32133.joao@matik.com.br> <200603061238.51592.jhb@freebsd.org> <200603061555.18613.joao@matik.com.br>

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On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:55:18PM -0300, JoaoBR wrote:
> On Monday 06 March 2006 14:38, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Monday 06 March 2006 11:49, JoaoBR wrote:
> > >
> > > I experience sudden reboot, no panic, no message at all on SMP systems
> > > (releng_6 up-to-date) when the kernel is compiled with
> > >
> > >
> > > I am not so sure but appearently the problem is less with ULE and seems
> > > to disappear with ULE and without IPI_PREEMPTION and the system runs up
> > > to almost 4Gb normally.
> > >
> 
> >
> > I'm not aware of the problem, but I don't think IPI_PREEMPTION has been
> > widely tested yet.
> 
> ok, do you think that wrong function could cause a silent reboot, not even 
> "crash" in last output?

Yes.

Kris

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