Recurring panic
Konstantin Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Wed Jun 5 10:13:55 UTC 2013
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 01:50:43PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:18:21AM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> I> I have the following recurring panic on all my heavily network
> I> loaded -CURRENT routers. The current process is always different.
> I>
> I> Gleb, can you please chime in with what you've managed to uncover.
>
> The panics appear on selfd mutex. The mtx_lock value is a free mutex, but
> it has 1 extra bit set:
>
> (kgdb) p/x sfp->sf_mtx->mtx_lock
> $3 = 0x1000004
>
> Rarely (only one panic observed) more than one bit is set:
>
> $3 = 0x21000004
>
> It is important that selfd mutexes are taken from mtxpool(9), which
> is allocated at a early boot stage. Thus, across reboots all possible
> sfp->sf_mtx mutexes usually fall into the same virtual memory region.
> I'm not sure, but I suppose, they fall into same physical region.
>
> This can lead one to idea that RAM in the box has problems. But it
> is running ECC memory, and it doesn't experience other random panics.
>
> The only special about the box is that it is running pf(4) with huge
> ruleset and a lot of traffic. So the pf(4) is the number one suspected,
> albeit it isn't closely related to selfds.
>
So is the virtual address of the corrupted word same for each panic ?
If yes, set up the hw watchpoint in ddb.
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