Crash during boot of current (rev 212885)

Lawrence Stewart lstewart at freebsd.org
Mon Sep 20 02:48:10 UTC 2010


Hiya Randall!

On 09/20/10 08:56, Randall Stewart wrote:
> Hey all:
> 
> I am now seeing a crash when I boot my Intel (in 64 bit more)...
> 
> Its very early in the boot process.. and thus no crash dump ;-0
> 
> Its in
> 
> netisr_start_swi()
> 
> When it initializes netisr_mtx with a mtx_init() it crashes saying
> that netisr_mtx is unaligned... (the address ddb shows for netisr_mtx ends
> with c ... so it definitely is unaligned...
> 
> Looking at the netisr_workstream structure (where netisr_mtx is) it
> appears to be in theory aligned right (follows 2 pointers)... so
> did something change the DP_CPU Define stuff to cause us to get unaligned
> access?
> 
> Just curious... If I don't hear from anyone I will start backing things
> out 1
> rev at a time until I find what did it I guess ;-)

My guess would be r212647. Try backing that rev out and if it fixes
things, hopefully Andriy will have some thoughts on how to fix the
problem. Apologies if my guess is a red herring.

Cheers,
Lawrence


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