FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2/amd64 crashes on SMP under load

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 30 July 2009 1:16:32 pm Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:02:29AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jul 30, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >>> By the way, are these two FreeBSD docs up to date:
> >>>
> >>> 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING
> >>>
> >>> 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
> >>>
> >>> In particular, it is still true that minidump is a default dump  
> >>> type?
> >>
> >> ia64 doesn't yet have minidumps. In fact, changes to GDB that
> >> happened a year ago or so broke the ability to read ia64 core
> >> files. I plan on implementing minidumps after 8.0-RELEASE.
> >
> > you mean, even if I get a dump, I wouldn't be able to read it?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> The change that broke it is:
> http://svn.FreeBSD.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=178670

Wait, how did that break ia64 but not other architectures?

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John Baldwin