FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE + bge0 == watchdog timeout

[Eugene M. Zheganin]

Hi.

On 24.03.2013 0:05, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> 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.
>
Please discard my last message; I just got two freezes in a row with a 
bunch of "bge timeout - resetting", still running the bge(4) from a 
8.3-PRERELEASE.
I don't know anymore what's triggering it. :(

Eugene.