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Date:      Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:16:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Ekins <john.ekins@brightview.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Regular panic on SMP system
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030306151605.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030306194400.4fa939e3.john.ekins@brightview.com>

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On 06-Mar-2003 John Ekins wrote:
> Gents/ladies(!),
> 
> I'm running several SMP systems but am having regular problems with one of
> them. I'm not sure if this is really a question for the SMP or the questions
> list, but I'm trying here first.
> 
> The machines are dual Xeon 2.4GHz .5MB cache with hyperthreading enabled. They
> are less than 2 weeks old. They have identical kernels, which leads me to
> believe this is a hardware problem with this particular machine but I'm not
> too sure. I'm looking for some advice. I've taken the liberty of posting the
> log when the machine crashes below.
> 
> I thought that "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode" referred to
> below suggests that something has eaten up the stack. These machines run Exim
> + named + anti virus software. I consider them lightly loaded.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions, and if I should post this to questions I
> apologise.
> 
> Cheers,
> John.
> 
> 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: mp_lock = 03000002; cpuid = 3; lapic.id =
> 03000000 Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: fault virtual address      = 0x0

NULL pointer dereference.  Any chance you could get a dump or get a stack
trace from ddb maybe?

> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: fault code         = supervisor write, page not
> present Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: instruction pointer        =
> 0x8:0xc01995ca 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: stack pointer              = 0x10:0xe4bdbecc 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: frame pointer              = 0x10:0xe4bdbed0 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: code segment               = base
> 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: processor eflags   = interrupt enabled, resume,
> IOPL = 0 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: current process  = 6 (vnlru) 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: interrupt mask             = bio  <- SMP: XXX 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: trap number                = 12
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: panic: page fault
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: mp_lock = 03000002; cpuid = 3; lapic.id =
> 03000000 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: boot() called on cpu#3
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: syncing disks... 84 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 34 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: done
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: Uptime: 3h8m39s
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on
> the console to abort 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: Rebooting...
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: cpu_reset called on cpu#3
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: cpu_reset: Stopping other CPUs
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: cpu_reset: Restarting BSP
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: cpu_reset_proxy: Gcrpaub_breeds emtp:  lBoScPk 
> dfiodr  nBoStP 
> Mar  6 10:12:45 mx0 /kernel: grab mp lock
> 
> 
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