the panic that seems deep in the bowels of ppc64

Dennis Clarke dclarke at blastwave.org
Tue Jul 16 10:39:00 UTC 2019


On 7/15/19 8:38 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 08:29:06PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Essentially one may checkout the sources and do a clean build only to
>> see the kernel panic on ppc64 hardware.
> 
> I don't understand.  What hardware?
> 
> We are doing a lot of work on Power8 and Power9 hardware from various
> manufacturers, and both 12 and -CURRENT behave well, even under stress.


Regardless the ppc64 world has bigger problems this morning :

     r350018 will panic on ppc64 PowerMac G5 in vm_phys_enqueue_contig
     https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239245

Another day another panic.



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Dennis Clarke
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