Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:00:55 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote:
> Hi all, a recent MFC to 7-STABLE has started to cause issues for my VMs
> on VMware ESXi 3.5u4.  After loading the mpt driver for the LSI disk
> controller the VM just shuts off.  The workaround is to change the disk
> controller to the BusLogic type.  Still, it used to work up until last
> week.  The change was made around January 26th and based on the commits
> that day I'm guessing it's either r203047 or r203073
> 
> I have the same issue with both amd64 and i386 VMs.  This affects HEAD
> and 8-STABLE as well and first affected HEAD over the summer.  (I just
> worked around it and went about my business at the time. :-/)  I've
> attached a dmesg from a kernel before the problem and one from after it
> started.

What if you set 'hw.clfush_disable=1' from the loader?

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John Baldwin