Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:27:53 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> Subject: Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi Message-ID: <201002050827.53343.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4B6B89E7.8030002@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <4B6B89E7.8030002@sdf.lonestar.org>
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On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:00:55 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: > Hi all, a recent MFC to 7-STABLE has started to cause issues for my VMs > on VMware ESXi 3.5u4. After loading the mpt driver for the LSI disk > controller the VM just shuts off. The workaround is to change the disk > controller to the BusLogic type. Still, it used to work up until last > week. The change was made around January 26th and based on the commits > that day I'm guessing it's either r203047 or r203073 > > I have the same issue with both amd64 and i386 VMs. This affects HEAD > and 8-STABLE as well and first affected HEAD over the summer. (I just > worked around it and went about my business at the time. :-/) I've > attached a dmesg from a kernel before the problem and one from after it > started. What if you set 'hw.clfush_disable=1' from the loader? -- John Baldwin
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