Running `sysctl -a` causes crash (Hyper-V)
Roger Pau Monné
roger.pau at citrix.com
Mon Nov 11 16:26:20 UTC 2013
On 11/11/13 17:21, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> On 11 November 2013 20:00, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com> wrote:
>> On 11/11/13 15:31, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
>>> On 11 November 2013 18:13, Pavel Timofeev <timp87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> (kgdb) p vm_guest
>>>> $1 = 3
>>>> Current language: auto; currently minimal
>>>> (kgdb)
>>>>
>>>
>>> What if you try this change?
>>>
>>> Index: sys/kern/subr_param.c
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- sys/kern/subr_param.c (revision 257695)
>>> +++ sys/kern/subr_param.c (working copy)
>>> @@ -153,6 +153,7 @@
>>> "none",
>>> "generic",
>>> "xen",
>>> + "hv",
>>> NULL
>>> };
>>
>> This is my fault, I've added VM_GUEST_HV to the guest type enum without
>> knowing there was another array in a completely different file that
>> contained a description for those values.
>
> Ok, I committed the fix in r257996.
>
>>
>> If you (or someone else) are going to commit this change, I would
>> recommend adding a BIG comment in sys/systm.h above the declaration of
>> VM_GUEST explaining that if you add a new guest type there you also need
>> to add a description in subr_param.c, this will probably prevent
>> something like this happening again.
>>
>
> What about this change?
>
> Index: sys/sys/systm.h
> ===================================================================
> --- sys/sys/systm.h (revision 257695)
> +++ sys/sys/systm.h (working copy)
> @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
> * Detected virtual machine guest types. The intention is to expand
> * and/or add to the VM_GUEST_VM type if specific VM functionality is
> * ever implemented (e.g. vendor-specific paravirtualization features).
> + * Keep in sync with vm_guest_sysctl_names[].
> */
> enum VM_GUEST { VM_GUEST_NO = 0, VM_GUEST_VM, VM_GUEST_XEN, VM_GUEST_HV };
Looks good to me.
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