From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 5 13:36:48 2010 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 C036010656A3 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:36:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 934938FC19 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:36:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 45ED946B2A; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:36:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8B8A88A024; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:36:47 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:27:53 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.2-CBSD-20100120; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <4B6B89E7.8030002@sdf.lonestar.org> In-Reply-To: <4B6B89E7.8030002@sdf.lonestar.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002050827.53343.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:36:47 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Tom McLaughlin Subject: Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi 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: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:36:48 -0000 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