Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:07:15 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wierd AMD panics caused by VMWare? Message-ID: <14515.59795.632514.748870@trooper.velocet.net>
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I had reported this earlier, but the similarities are striking:
I too have seen strange AMD panics where stack variables inexplicably
go to zero. My systems are K6/2-400's, and I have often witnessed the
following fault (only happens on a *really* busy web server)
#0 boot (howto=256) at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:285
#1 0xc014aad1 in panic (fmt=0xc023878a "page fault")
at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:446
#2 0xc02098ce in trap_fatal (frame=0xcc74eecc, eva=134812896)
at ../../i386/i386/trap.c:942
#3 0xc0209587 in trap_pfault (frame=0xcc74eecc, usermode=0, eva=134812896)
at ../../i386/i386/trap.c:835
#4 0xc02091ba in trap (frame={tf_es = -887750640, tf_ds = -1036058608,
tf_edi = -1050208512, tf_esi = -1043943040, tf_ebp = -864751828,
tf_isp = -864751884, tf_ebx = 2287, tf_edx = -1036043576, tf_ecx = 0,
tf_eax = 134812884, tf_trapno = 12, tf_err = 2, tf_eip = -1072417321,
tf_cs = 8, tf_eflags = 66054, tf_esp = -1041509376, tf_ss = -1036024832})
at ../../i386/i386/trap.c:437
#5 0xc01435d7 in fdcopy (p=0xcc5796e0) at ../../kern/kern_descrip.c:954
#6 0xc014587b in fork1 (p1=0xcc5796e0, flags=-2147483596)
at ../../kern/kern_fork.c:379
#7 0xc014533b in vfork (p=0xcc5796e0, uap=0xcc74ef94)
at ../../kern/kern_fork.c:109
#8 0xc0209b17 in syscall (frame={tf_es = 39, tf_ds = 39, tf_edi = 236237520,
tf_esi = 236231856, tf_ebp = -1077952324, tf_isp = -864751644,
tf_ebx = 673171048, tf_edx = 163766316, tf_ecx = 672877149, tf_eax = 66,
tf_trapno = 7, tf_err = 2, tf_eip = 672936705, tf_cs = 31,
tf_eflags = 514, tf_esp = -1077952368, tf_ss = 39})
at ../../i386/i386/trap.c:1100
#9 0xc01feedc in Xint0x80_syscall ()
Now the interesting code here is at stack from #5:
(kgdb) list
948 fpp = newfdp->fd_ofiles;
949 for (i = newfdp->fd_lastfile; i-- >= 0; fpp++)
950 if (*fpp != NULL)
951 (*fpp)->f_count++;
(kgdb) p newfdp->fd_ofiles
$1 = (struct file **) 0xc23f2000
(kgdb) p fpp
$2 = (struct file **) 0x0
Now... the only operation on fpp is fpp++. It should take a _long_
time for fpp to get around to 0 and you'd thing that *fpp would be
zero long before that (or cause a page fault at some other
non-existant location).
So... the similarity here is that deep in the kernel, we have a
automatic (possibly register) local variable that's getting zero'd.
I have half-a-dozen crash dumps of this nature. For me, it always
happens in fdcopy(). This may be due to the fact that the machine is
running a large apache config --- so fork() is something it's doing
often.
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