From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 12:37:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550601065671; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:37:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail5out.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3468FC25; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:37:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail5out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 206312218A78; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:37:00 +1000 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <489AEC6C00007407CD750C@BarNet> Received: from mail5auth.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail5auth.barnet.com.au", Issuer "*.barnet.com.au" (verified OK)) by mail5.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D487E21B4A8C; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:36:59 +1000 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (ppp121-44-11-180.lns10.syd7.internode.on.net [121.44.11.180]) by mail5auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1A12218A66; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:36:59 +1000 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CFAAF275; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:36:06 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:36:06 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Jeremy Chadwick Message-ID: <20080807123606.GT3285@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Jeremy Chadwick , Gerrit K?hn , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20080807132947.061d24eb.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20080807114706.GA3286@k7.mavetju> <20080807121940.GA28212@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080807121940.GA28212@eos.sc1.parodius.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Gerrit K?hn , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regression 7.0R -> 7-stable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:37:01 -0000 On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:19:40AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:47:06PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 01:29:47PM +0200, Gerrit K?hn wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I have a rather new FujitsuSiemens Esprimo here with an AMD Phenom X3 > > > processor (triple core is somehow strange :-) and a lot of NVidia stuff > > > onboard. I installed 7.0-R, which ran quite well except for the bge driver > > > and snd_hda which both complained. > > > After putting in an extra networking card I was able to install some more > > > software and all appeared to be nice. Then I cvsupped to the recent > > > 7-stable as of today. My hope was that maybe the bge or the sound card > > > would improve from this. However, the new kernel I compiled does not run > > > at all. It boots up to CPU#1 and CPU#2 lauchned messages and then sits > > > there and does nothing anymore. I have verified this behaviour with amd64 > > > snapshot images from July and August to make sure I did not compile a bad > > > kernel. Both show the same behaviour. > > > Are there any ideas what has changed from 7.0-R to recent 7.0-stable that > > > could cause this? What can I do to debug/fix this? > > > > Make sure you have this in your /etc/sysctl.conf: > > > > [~] edwin@k7>grep hyper /etc/sysctl.conf > > machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 > > > > Then with top you can see the CPUs in use ----------v > > > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > > 69200 edwin 9 44 0 236M 130M ucond 0 33:37 5.76% seamonkey-b > > 3317 edwin 1 71 0 38404K 33572K select 1 3:51 0.10% mutt > > 3015 edwin 1 45 0 403M 81672K select 0 101:52 0.00% Xorg > > I think you misread what he was saying. :-) He's saying that his > system locks up hard after the kernel prints the "SMP: AP CPU #x > Launched!" messages. It's indeed a different interpretation of what I originally read. Sorry for the noise! Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/