Crash during boot of current (rev 212885)

[Andriy Gapon]

on 20/09/2010 06:38 Randall Stewart said the following:
> Hi Lawrence:
> 
> I am currently doing a binary search..
> 
> I know that 212660 shows the break.
> 
> I am just about to try 212560 ;-)
> 
> If that works I will update to 212646 and see if it works.. ;-)

Randall,

please also make sure that you have sufficiently recent ld as described in
UPDATING from 20100915.
I'd be interested to see output of readelf -a -W for your kernel that crashes.


> On Sep 19, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> 
>> Hiya Randall!
>>
>> On 09/20/10 08:56, Randall Stewart wrote:
>>> Hey all:
>>>
>>> I am now seeing a crash when I boot my Intel (in 64 bit more)...
>>>
>>> Its very early in the boot process.. and thus no crash dump ;-0
>>>
>>> Its in
>>>
>>> netisr_start_swi()
>>>
>>> When it initializes netisr_mtx with a mtx_init() it crashes saying
>>> that netisr_mtx is unaligned... (the address ddb shows for netisr_mtx ends
>>> with c ... so it definitely is unaligned...
>>>
>>> Looking at the netisr_workstream structure (where netisr_mtx is) it
>>> appears to be in theory aligned right (follows 2 pointers)... so
>>> did something change the DP_CPU Define stuff to cause us to get unaligned
>>> access?
>>>
>>> Just curious... If I don't hear from anyone I will start backing things
>>> out 1
>>> rev at a time until I find what did it I guess ;-)
>>
>> My guess would be r212647. Try backing that rev out and if it fixes
>> things, hopefully Andriy will have some thoughts on how to fix the
>> problem. Apologies if my guess is a red herring.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Lawrence
>>
> 
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Andriy Gapon