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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:49:36 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Cc:        Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: reboot after panic: vm_page_unwire: invalid wire count: 0
Message-ID:  <473A4620.8010909@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170711131413g70af61bch1fb29ea917068272@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <0ECA0F43-497A-4823-8731-D517889D5822@khera.org>	<ad79ad6b0711131350u7c00fb0ek16a23f5dc12089cb@mail.gmail.com>	<91893E44-B766-4B31-9DA7-62F5EC0CCD45@khera.org> <b1fa29170711131413g70af61bch1fb29ea917068272@mail.gmail.com>

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Kip Macy wrote:
> Unfortunately, ZERO_COPY_SOCKETs have long been a known source of
> problems. I think also, when a page is copied as part of COW the new
> page is unwired (see pmap_copy et al.), this could lead to
> socow_iodone unwiring after send a page that was not wired. An added
> issue is that parts of the VM assume that COW and wired are mutually
> exclusive which the socow code violates.
> 
> At some point in the near future I may be adding support for doing
> zero copy send without COW for blocking sockets. The one down side of
> this approach is that if you have multiple threads in your process it
> widens the window during which they can stomp on data that you're
> sending. Nonetheless, this would be a bug in the application code.
> More complicated would be zero-copy non-COW send on non-blocking
> sockets as it would require an extension to kevent for completion
> notification.
> 
> In the meantime, your best bet is to disable ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS.

There is a chance this was a recent regression, previously in 7.0 they 
were believed to work.

Kris

> 
> 
>  -Kip
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 13, 2007 1:59 PM, Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> wrote:
>> On Nov 13, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Vlad GALU wrote:
>>
>>>>        vmio = 1
>>>>        offset = Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x93
>>>> (kgdb)
>>>>
>>>    Do you happen to have ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS in your kernel config?
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, I do.  Are they known to be bad under certain loads or just in
>> general.  I don't have this issue with any other web server running
>> the same kernel config but those are amd64 boxes mostly.
>>
>>
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