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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:59:43 -0800
From:      Joe Rhett <jrhett@meer.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?
Message-ID:  <20041213075943.GA3909@meer.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041213054159.GC78120@meer.net>
References:  <20041213052628.GB78120@meer.net> <20041213054159.GC78120@meer.net>

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As another side note, is there a reason that 5.3 doesn't reboot after page
faults?  The crash and dumpdev man pages still indicate that it should.
This makes this problem hard to work on (must be at facility to debug..)
 
Or is there a new/undocumented configuration option?

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:41:59PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> And another, I can now confirm that it is fairly easy to kill 5.3-release
> during the rebuilding process.  The following steps will cause a kernel
> page fault consistently:
	...
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address = 0x10
> ....
> current process = 1063 (rebuilding ar0 1%)
> trap number = 12
> panic: page fault

-- 
Joe Rhett
Senior Geek
Meer.net



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