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Date:      Thu, 7 Oct 2021 16:52:52 -0400
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
To:        imb@protected-networks.net
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: intermittent bsdtar/jemalloc failures
Message-ID:  <YV9eJLPdHSWtl5hh@nuc>
In-Reply-To: <31be6e3a-f303-ce78-4dab-5dcc77ed0464@protected-networks.net>
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On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 04:18:28PM -0400, Michael Butler via freebsd-current wrote:
> On 10/7/21 15:39, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 03:28:44PM -0400, Michael Butler via freebsd-current wrote:
> >> While building a local release bundle, I sometimes get bsdtar failing (and
> >> dumping core) as follows below. Worse, as can be seen below, it doesn't stop
> >> the build unless I happen to notice and it yields an incomplete package.
> >>
> >> a usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_checksum.h
> >> a usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_message.h
> >> a usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_echo.c
> >> a usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_gif.h
> >> <jemalloc>: jemalloc_arena.c:747: Failed assertion:
> >> "nstime_compare(&decay->epoch, &time) <= 0"
> >> Abort trap (core dumped)
> >> sh /usr/src/release/scripts/make-manifest.sh *.txz > MANIFEST
> >>
> >> What causes this? Build machine is a 2x4-core Intel box with ZFS
> >> file-systems all around. I tried stopping NTPD temporarily but the failures
> >> persist .. sometimes :-(
> >>
> >> I've seen this at different points in the archiving process so it doesn't
> >> seem specific to building kernel.txz.
> > 
> > What timecounter do you use? Perhaps show the whole output from
> > sysctl kern.timecounter.
> 
> imb@vm01:/home/imb> sysctl kern.timecounter
> kern.timecounter.tsc_shift: 1
> kern.timecounter.smp_tsc_adjust: 0
> kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 1
> kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 1
> kern.timecounter.fast_gettime: 1
> kern.timecounter.tick: 1
> kern.timecounter.choice: ACPI-fast(900) HPET(950) i8254(0) TSC-low(1000) 
> dummy(-1000000)
> kern.timecounter.hardware: HPET
> kern.timecounter.alloweddeviation: 5
> kern.timecounter.timehands_count: 2
> kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
> kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.quality: 900
> kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.frequency: 3579545
> kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.counter: 16124892
> kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.mask: 16777215
> kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 950
> kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 14318180
> kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 1883995229
> kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295
> kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0
> kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182
> kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 57
> kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535
> kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.quality: 1000
> kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.frequency: 1413153007
> kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.counter: 2352002295
> kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.mask: 4294967295
> 
> I overrode the default selection of counter-type as NTPD drifted so 
> badly as to require stepping almost hourly :-(

Could you show output from

# kldload cpuctl
# cpucontrol -i 0x15 /dev/cpuctl0
# cpucontrol -i 0x16 /dev/cpuctl0

as well as a copy of the dmesg after a boot?  I am looking at a similar
problem currently.



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