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Date:      Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:10:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mtrash_ctor panic caused by ACPI and ATAng   was Re:Interrupts, ATAng, and wayward pointers, oh my!
Message-ID:  <20040209100947.K47197@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040207070653.GA28676@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <20040205231737.GB17451@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20040206231933.GA25826@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20040207070653.GA28676@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Steve Kargl wrote:

> Yes, intriguing.  I used the better part of 1 day to eliminate
> possibilities for the problem.  I forgot to mention the problem
> does not depend on APIC or no APIC support in the kernel.
>
> > > PS: No, I can't get a core dump because the disk subsystem isn't
> > >     ready for a dump when the panics occurred and I can't hook
> > >     up a serial console.  I can panic the machine as needed.
> >
> > You can say 'set dumpdev=/dev/foo0s1b' in loader to set the dump target.
> >
>
> This doesn't work unless I can get a near instantaneous dump. That is,
> db> call dumpsys
> returns in under a second.  Revision 1.19 of ata-queue.c (note the
> typo of ata-queue.h above) reworked the locking of ATA.  I suspect
> that my laptop is tickling some race that Soren hasn't seen.

try 'call doadump()'

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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