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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:56:31 +0100
From:      Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>
Cc:        David Rhodus <sdrhodus@gmail.com>, Gianni <gianni@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic: sched_priority: invalid priority 2906: nice 0, ticks 122865664 ftick 516947 ltick 517947 tick pri 2726
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimAKS_PcnLb_8=zJq-mNd7B=wwoOYu_6LGYg3bk@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/11/29 Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>:
> On 29.11.2010 17:07, John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>> On Friday, November 26, 2010 4:38:49 pm David Rhodus wrote:
>>>
>>> I hit this panic on my NFS server.
>>>
>>> -DR
>>>
>>> coke.fun dumped core - see /var/crash/vmcore.2
>>>
>>> Fri Nov 26 14:50:48 UTC 2010
>>>
>>> FreeBSD coke.fun 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #14 r215800: Wed Nov
>>> 24 12:35:30 UTC 2010 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 root@coke.fun:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/G=
ENERIC
>>> i386
>>>
>>> panic: sched_priority: invalid priority 2906: nice 0, ticks 122865664
>>> ftick 516947 ltick 517947 tick pri 2726
>>
>> I ran the numbers and assuming a hz of 1000, this requires you to have a
>> very
>> large value for ts_ticks (about (2726 * 24)<< =C2=A010). =C2=A0I suspect=
 this is due
>> to
>> sched_tick() being invoked for a long idle sleep combined with the
>> eventtimer
>> changes. =C2=A0Can you go to frame 10 and 'p td->td_sched->ts_ticks'?
>
> As I can see, this is VirtualBox virtual machine. So it is still a questi=
on
> what side makes so large hole in sched_tick() on some CPUs. It could be
> interesting to get ktr(4) dump with KTR_SPARE2 mask:
>
> options =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 KTR
> options =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ALQ
> options =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 KTR_ALQ
> options =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 KTR_ENTRIES=3D131072
> options =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 KTR_COMPILE=3D(KTR_SPARE2)
> options =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 KTR_MASK=3D(KTR_SPARE2)

I'm sure gianni (CC'ed) got  this bug and got some conclusions on it
before (maybe he also has a patch).

Attilio


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