From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 5 19:04:12 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 760471065670; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:04:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jpaetzel@freebsd.org) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453F28FC19; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 989C9DFFE7; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:47:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:47:48 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=NvoevzLaUZd2EWPP+YdEOelph9o=; b=akWIP74Knnl9s2nvOAmkN1rZgOI8+FF6PR363i+kWTUzNT6kQLPscc6Zu6YoKMk40u1zjY7wzKy5jIKQG1DUf/uVdCKhAdE3wOS048L43+di5z18KLeWi68mtCNc4rvLUlezRAHavkdPHSbaorGQYel+0/v7Jl0vNpcaAq3ygn4= X-Sasl-enc: E809dTlzK8GIJNYpbjtoVuUSbg3mukXv1qWNdJBXn/A5 1265395668 Received: from ix.tcbug.org (71-82-134-106.dhcp.roch.mn.charter.com [71.82.134.106]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3B69E22B52; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:47:48 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B6C6797.8030803@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:46:47 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100130 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4B6B89E7.8030002@sdf.lonestar.org> <201002050827.53343.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201002050827.53343.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jhb@freebsd.org 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 19:04:12 -0000 On 02/05/10 07:27, John Baldwin wrote: > 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? > For what it's worth, I have two machines running ESXi 4.0 and haven't encountered this problem. It's possible this issue affects 3.5 only. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel FreeBSD -- The power to serve