Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:25:27 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, jkim@freebsd.org, robert.moore@intel.com Subject: Re: Panic on boot with new ACPI-CA Message-ID: <200511031125.29771.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051103161410.GA43544@peter.osted.lan> References: <971FCB6690CD0E4898387DBF7552B90E0346CAFB@orsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com> <200511031043.13285.jhb@freebsd.org> <20051103161410.GA43544@peter.osted.lan>
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On Thursday 03 November 2005 11:14 am, Peter Holm wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:43:10AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday 03 November 2005 09:40 am, Peter Holm wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:24:46PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > On 2005-11-03 03:47, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > > > > >On 2005-11-02 17:03, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> wrote: > > > > >> As I mentioned to Jung-uk, the problem is likely an error in > > > > >> acpi-ca modifying memory after it has freed it. The way to > > > > >> track this down is to enable memguard(9). See the man page for > > > > >> info. You need to add options DEBUG_MEMGUARD to your kernel, > > > > >> set the malloc type to watch to M_ACPICA, and rebuild your > > > > >> kernel and modules. Memguard sets page permissions so we can > > > > >> catch the culprit who is modifying the memory. > > > > > > > > > > This is exactly the messgae printed on my console at panic time > > > > > -- of memory modified after free. I'm building a kernel with > > > > > MEMGUARD now, but it's probably going to be a bit hard to get a > > > > > kernel dump, because the panic happens before disks are > > > > > available and I don't have a serial console here. > > > > > > > > This is definitely something that is ACPI-related. I updated my > > > > sources to the last commit before the start of the ACPI import: > > > > > > > > build@flame:/home/build/src$ cvs -qR up -APd -D '2005/11/01 > > > > 22:00:00 UTC' > > > > > > > > Rebuilt everything and I see no panics now. > > > > > > > > I'll use the watchpoint trick Nate posted when I have a new build > > > > to test. > > > > > > I've had the same problem with two of my boxes. Here's the result of a > > > watchpoint: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/acpi.html > > > > > > I too came to the conclusion that the damage happened between > > > > > > 2005-11-01 22:00:00 UTC OK > > > 2005-11-01 22:45:00 UTC panic > > > > Does this diff make a difference perhaps? > > It did not make any difference as far as I can tell. Ok, it was more of a guess anyway that perhaps ACPICA was reusing the garbage in buf.Pointer. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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