RELENG_5 PAE panic
Frank McConnell
fmc at reanimators.org
Fri Aug 5 05:14:33 GMT 2005
Further debugging led me to the conclusion that the problem is in
pmap_protect(), in src/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c; and has to do with a
32-bit-truncated pt_entry_t being passed to PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE().
(pt_entry_t is 64 bits if the kernel is built with PAE.) This caused
a page fault in vm_page_flag_set() which left the thread deadlocked
while holding vm_page_queue_mtx and in turn led to a panic when
another thread tried to acquire vm_page_queue_mtx.
Then I checked the cvs logs, and saw rev 1.524, which looks like what
I was thinking about as a fix, so I'm giving it a spin on top of
earlier-this-week's RELENG_5. Thus far I'll say that with that change
my usual way of provoking the problem hasn't, yet.
I'm going to try to get this PC put back into co-lo where it can
get some production-like testing this weekend. It'd be nice to get
this fix MFC'd to RELENG_5 too.
-Frank McConnell
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