panic in propagate_priority w/ postgresql under heavy load
Koen Martens
fbsd at metro.cx
Fri Nov 4 14:21:13 PST 2005
Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Koen Martens wrote:
>
>> kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled
>>
>>
>> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>> cpuid = 1; apic id = 06
>> fault virtual address = 0x24
>> fault code = supervisor read, page not present
>> instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc051c253
>> stack pointer = 0x10:0xe93efb3c
>> frame pointer = 0x10:0xe93efb50
>> code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>> = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
>> processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0
>> current process = 6092 (postgres)
>>
>> And that, that is all.. No ddb> no 'dumping xxxxMB', just that. So
>> basically, i fear this is a non-debugable problem, since putting in
>> witness and such slows the kernel to a point where the panic does not
>> occur anymore (at least, not in the 4 weeks i've been running the box
>> with witness & invariants). Clueless :)
>
>
> This looks like a NULL pointer dereference in kernel code. Probably,
> this is not a locking problem, so running without WITNESS to debug
> this should be OK. Are you using a serial console? If not, you might
> find that it increases the reliability of entering DDB. If this box
> is an SMP box, you may also want to add options KDB_STOP_NMI to your
> kernel config.
>
> Using gdb, could you work out what function 0xc051c253 is, and where
> in the function. You should be able to run gdb on your kernel.debug
> (or kernel on 7.x), and use "l *0xc051c253" to generate a pointer to
> the line and snippet, which will give us a substantial hint about what
> is happening.
Sorry for not getting back on this timely, have had rather a busy
period
(lousy excuse, i know). Anyway, I have currently downgraded the machine
to a 5.3-RELEASE-p22 kernel, which seems to have solved the problem.
There are no panics anymore (it has been two weeks since the
downgrade).
Makes me a bit warry about upgrading anything to 6.x :)
Anyway, i did get into the ddb prompt on one of the last panics, and
put
some of the resources online:
http://www.sonologic.nl/fbsd/
As you can see, i was pretty clueless about what to do, and just traced
about everything that was not swapped out..
Did not put the core dump online, as i don't feel like sharing that
with
the world. Available upon request though for those who want to get a
crack at this.
I don't have a copy of the kernel.debug lying around, for which I
apologise. I cannot however upgrade to 5.4 again, we've had enought
trouble with this machine and the user load on that machine has
increased to a point where i cannot afford these random panics anymore.
I don't have the spare identical hardware lying around at this point to
copy the entire setup for testing purposes..
What i will try when i find some time is doing incremental upgrades
from
5.3-RELEASE-p22 to 5.4-RELEASE-p6, step by step, to see what patchlevel
introduces the problem.
Best,
Koen
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