Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:10:10 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Christoph Hoffmann <christoph_hoffmann@me.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gptzfsboot error using HP Smart Array P410i Controller Message-ID: <201108181310.10920.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <23B6937F-F261-4DC4-9168-96720251C98D@me.com> References: <E040B3A9-9B62-4545-ADC9-5CE3A9217024@me.com> <201108161515.50127.jhb@freebsd.org> <23B6937F-F261-4DC4-9168-96720251C98D@me.com>
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On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:30:24 pm Christoph Hoffmann wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> Thank you very much indeed for the hints.
>
> I am under the impression that we are facing a problem with synchronisation
> of CPU local caches. I also wasn't able to find any problem with memory
> allocation.
>
> This box is equipped with:
>
> 1 Processor(s) detected, 4 total cores enabled, Hyperthreading is enabled
> Proc 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5630 @ 2.53GHz
> QPI Speed: 5.8 GT/s
>
> Changing the order of execution in zfsboot.c main() function to
>
> […]
> int
> main(void)
> {
> […]
> bios_getmem();
>
> if (high_heap_size > 0) {
> […]
> bootinfo.bi_version = BOOTINFO_VERSION;
> bootinfo.bi_size = sizeof(bootinfo);
> bootinfo.bi_basemem = bios_basemem / 1024;
> bootinfo.bi_extmem = bios_extmem / 1024;
> bootinfo.bi_memsizes_valid++;
> /* bootinfo.bi_bios_dev = dsk->drive; */
> bootinfo.bi_bios_dev = *(uint8_t *)PTOV(ARGS);
What if you leave the order as-is but just change this one line to use
PTOV(ARGS) directly here instead of 'dsk->drive'?
--
John Baldwin
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