7.1-STABLE does not boot after recent superpage support MFC

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 27 09:12:29 PST 2009


On Friday 27 February 2009 11:26:25 am Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:26:15AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 27 February 2009 8:08:30 am Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > > Is anyone able to boot kernel with recently merged superpage support ?
> > > I have csup'd world to
> > > *default date=2009.02.26.23.59.59
> > > then rebuild world and kernel does not boot:
> > > 
> > > FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #4: Fri Feb 27 11:59:13 MSK 2009
> > >     XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> > > kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> > > cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
> > > fault virtual address   = 0x0
> > > fault code              = supervisor read data, page not present
> > > instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xffffffff803b1d80
> > > stack pointer           = 0x10:0xffffffff80686ce0
> > > frame pointer           = 0x10:0xffffffff80686d00
> > > code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> > >                         = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1
> > > processor eflags        = resume, IOPL = 0
> > > current process         = 0 ()
> > > trap number             = 12
> > > panic: page fault
> > > cpuid = 0
> > > 
> > > And the message is cycled. The kernel does not boot despite
> > > vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled value.
> > 
> > This should now be fixed, apologies for the breakage. :(
> 
> Thank you, your commit has fixed the bug.
> 
> Now I have
> 
> $sysctl vm.pmap.pde
> vm.pmap.pde.promotions: 518
> vm.pmap.pde.p_failures: 4534
> vm.pmap.pde.mappings: 0
> vm.pmap.pde.demotions: 423
> 
> Does this mean that (518 - 423) * 2 = 190M are mapped via 2M pages ?

I don't think that includes the direct map which uses 2M pages.  I think your 
conclusion is correct, but alc@ would know for sure.

-- 
John Baldwin


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