FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE + bge0 == watchdog timeout

[Eugene M. Zheganin]

Hi.

On 19.03.2013 12:03, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> I have no idea how this change can freeze your box. It would be
> even better to know whether the issue was triggered by bge(4)
> changes. I think you can use bge(4)/brgphy(4) of 8.3-RELEASE on
> your stable/8. Copy required files from 8.3-RELEASE to stable/8 and
> rebuild your kernel. For instance,
>
> Copy /usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c from 8.3-RELEASE to /usr/src/sys/dev/bge on stable/8
> Copy /usr/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h from 8.3-RELEASE to /usr/src/sys/dev/bge on stable/8
> Copy /usr/src/sys/dev/mii/brgphy.c from 8.3-RELEASE to /usr/src/sys/dev/mii on stable/8
> Copy /usr/src/sys/dev/mii/brgphyreg.g from 8.3-RELEASE to /usr/src/sys/dev/mii on stable/8
> And rebuild your kernel.

Well, as I said, I took the if_bge* and bgrphy* sources from one of my 
servers running 8.3-PRERELEASE (21 мар 2012) and applied it to the 
stable/8 I'm running on this troubled server.
This is how the "last" output looks on it:

last | grep reboot
reboot ~ Wed Mar 20 00:36
reboot ~ Tue Mar 19 12:44
reboot ~ Mon Mar 18 22:47
reboot ~ Mon Mar 18 08:31
reboot ~ Sun Mar 17 20:40
reboot ~ Sat Mar 16 11:24
reboot ~ Sat Mar 16 11:17
reboot ~ Fri Mar 15 15:17
reboot ~ Fri Mar 15 13:41
reboot ~ Fri Mar 15 08:58
^^^^^^ this is the time point where the stable/8 was installed.

Last reboot was on March, 20 - this is when I rolled back the bge(4) 
driver. Uptime is now about 4 days. Before that it couldn't stand a full 
day, and now - 4 days. This doesn't look accidental.

Thanks.
Eugene.