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Date:      Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:31:39 -0500
From:      Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
To:        Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Complete hang on 9.0-RELEASE
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Hi,

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 2012/2/29, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> wrote=
:
>>> 2012/2/29, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 2012/2/27, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.c=
om>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> For the records, I was running some tests yesterday on top of a
>>>>>>>>> 9.0-RELEASE, amd64, kernel when the box hanged. At the time of th=
e
>>>>>>>>> hang, the box was running a process with about 2800 threads with
>>>>>>>>> heavy
>>>>>>>>> IPC between 1400 writers and 1400 readers. The box was in single
>>>>>>>>> user
>>>>>>>>> mode (/bin/sh coming from FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE). Here is the beginn=
ing
>>>>>>>>> of the dmesg:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This happened a second time, now with FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. Complet=
e
>>>>>>>> machine hang. The machine was running about 4000 threads in a sing=
le
>>>>>>>> process, all the other condition are the same.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Arnaud,
>>>>>>> can you please break in your kernel via KDB, collect the following
>>>>>>> informations from the DDB prompt:
>>>>>>> - ps
>>>>>>> - alltrace
>>>>>>> - show allpcpu
>>>>>>> - possibly get a coredump with 'call doadump'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Will do, but I'll need to rebuild a kernel to include DDB.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and in the end provide all those along with kernel binary and possi=
bly
>>>>>>> sources somewhere?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll be testing a bare `release/8.2.0' with the following patch:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC b/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
>>>>>> index c3e0095..7bd997f 100644
>>>>>> --- a/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
>>>>>> +++ b/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
>>>>>> @@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ options =A0 =A0 =A0INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE =A0 =A0 # =
Include this
>>>>>> file in kernel
>>>>>>
>>>>>> =A0options =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0KDB =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 # Kernel debugger =
related code
>>>>>> =A0options =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0KDB_TRACE =A0 =A0 # Print a stack trace fo=
r a panic
>>>>>> +options =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0DDB
>>>>>> +options =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER
>>>>>> +options =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER
>>>>>>
>>>>>> =A0# Make an SMP-capable kernel by default
>>>>>> =A0options =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0SMP =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 # Symmetric MultiP=
rocessor Kernel
>>>>>>
>>>>> ok, it happened again after 2 days, the process was running about 320=
0
>>>>> threads. I'm trying to break into DDB and let you know, I'm not that
>>>>> successful for now...
>>>>>
>>>> No luck. None of BREAK or ALT_BREAK are responding. I will not touch
>>>> the system in the next few hours if you want me to test something on
>>>> it. In the event of 8.2-RELEASE or 9.0-RELEASE are =A0not meant to wor=
k
>>>> reliably on top of a 7.4-RELEASE userland, I will re-setup the test to
>>>> occurs on a clean 9.0-RELEASE system and re-try.
>>>
>>> We allow to break KBI when new releases happens, thus this may cause a
>>> breakage for you, even if a deadlock is really not something you want.
>>>
>>> Can you try enabling SW_WATCHDOG, DEADLKRES and possibly arm your ichwd=
?
>>> if the breakage involves clocks or interrupt sources there are still
>>> chances they will be able to catch it though.
>>>
>>> However, it doesn't seem you are setup with a proper serial console?
>> The serial console is working definitively fine. I can break into DDB
>> at will when the test is running. I did not test with ALT_BREAK
>> per-se, but BREAK does work.
>
> So if you try to break in DDB via serial break it doesn't work?
> That is definitively very bad...
>
just to be sure, I rebooted the system and I could break into DDB at
the first attempt with ALT_BREAK, BREAK was a bit more reluctant but
worked too. So yes, this does not taste good :/

> Can you try with the options I mentioned earlier and see if something cha=
nges?
>
will do, but I will first attempt to reproduce this on 9.0-RELEASE.

 - Arnaud

> Attilio
>
>
> --
> Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein



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