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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:43:33 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Yong Rao <yrao@force10networks.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, Jagjit Choudhary <jagjit@force10networks.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-6.2, SMP, coredump -- fatal trap 12 : page fault while in kernel mode, current process: (swi1:net)
Message-ID:  <20070614024333.GA70019@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1818EFE74C4A8A4292E05835D378EC66130055@EXCH-CLUSTER-07.force10networks.com>
References:  <1818EFE74C4A8A4292E05835D378EC66130055@EXCH-CLUSTER-07.force10networks.com>

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:26:51PM -0700, Yong Rao wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> Recently, in developing our driver, we found the core dump did not work
> on the FBSD OS 6.2. It hung at the beginning of core dump when crash
> happened. 

This can happen when the panic involves the storage subsystem, or if
something else is performing I/O (i.e. holding a relevant lock) at the
time of panic.  Online debugging using ddb helps a lot.

Kris



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