8.0RC2 amd64 - kernel panic running make buildworld

[Mark Atkinson]

S.N.Grigoriev wrote:
> 
> 10.11.09, 09:15, "Mark Atkinson" <atkin901 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> on 10/11/2009 17:22 gary.jennejohn at freenet.de said the following:
>>>> Well, OK, I may have misinterpreted what you wrote or have chosen bad
>>>> wording myself to convey the same message.  Nonetheless it looks like
>>>> a hardware problem to me.
>>> [Trying to make up for my previous mistake.]
>>>
>>> The symptom certainly looks like misbehaving hardware, but other information from
>>> the reports seems to suggest that it is possible that this misbehavior might be
>>> caused by software misconfiguring the hardware.
>>>
>>> I would re-test vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0 just to be sure that it was correctly teh
>>> first time.
>>> I would try to see how 8.0-RC1 kernel behaves and in general try to find last
>>> working, first non-working version.
>>> It would be useful to know any (if any) non-default loader.conf and rc.conf
>>> settings or kernel config (if not GENERIC).
>>>
>>> Not a trivial issue unless it is hardware indeed.
>>>
>> Also, you can try adding:
>> hw.mca.enabled="1" in /boot/loader.conf, reboot,  and then see if there
>> is a machine check exception on the console during the buildworld.
> 
> Mark,
> 
> I've added hw.mca.enabled="1" in /boot/loader.conf and got the following
> screen during the buildworld:
> 
> ......
>  -c /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as/../../../../contrib/binutils/gas/sb.c
> 
> MCA: CPU3 UNCOR PCC OVER DTLIB L1 error
> MCA: Address 0x8015fb000
> 
> 
> Fatal trap 28: machine check trap while in user mode
> 
> Fatal trap 28: machine check trap while in user mode
> cpuid = 3, apic id = 03
> ...... etc.
> 
> 
> I've typed 'panic' at the 'db>' prompt but got no crash dump.
> Tell me please what can I do for further problem investigation.
> 

Well, you're about at the point I am now with my HP dl385g5, only
turning off superpages would result in a successful buildworld.   Mine
would often machine check during gas compilation as well.

You can try issuing 'where' or 'bt' to see the backtrace, but It
probably wouldn't reveal anything useful.

If 'panic' doesn't create a dump, you can try 'call doadump', then
'reset' to reset the machine.

All the best,

Mark