Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:39:17 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortelnetworks.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-PRERELEASE PAE panics Highpoint Raid module (hpt374.ko) Message-ID: <20031020013917.GA57650@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <3F4F56EF.3060900@nortelnetworks.com> References: <3F4F56EF.3060900@nortelnetworks.com>
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:36:47AM -0400, Andrew Atrens wrote: > > The subject says it all. > > I preload the module, and during boot I see a panic when it attempts to > initialise. 100% reproducible. The panic seems to happen in > pmap_kthread... (mumble) ... I got this from a ddb 'trace' command. I believe you can't use loadable modules with PAE enabled. The reason is that modules are not compiled with the necessary options to make them work with PAE. (And if they were compiled so they worked with PAE, they wouldn't work in the non-PAE case.) > > > During normal operations I see that it has installed itself as some kind > of kernel thread - don't know the precise terminology for this, but ps > ax says - > > 0 ?? DLs 0:00.00 (swapper) > 1 ?? ILs 0:00.08 /sbin/init -- > 2 ?? DL 0:00.00 (usb0) > 3 ?? DL 0:00.00 (usbtask) > 4 ?? DL 0:04.56 (usb1) > 5 ?? DL 0:00.00 (pagedaemon) > 6 ?? DL 0:00.00 (vmdaemon) > 7 ?? DL 0:00.00 (bufdaemon) > 8 ?? DL 0:00.01 (vnlru) > 9 ?? DL 0:00.19 (syncer) > 10 ?? DL 0:00.00 (hpt374) > > > Without PAE the Highpoint driver is rock solid. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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