new interrupt code: panic when going multiuser
Bruce Evans
bde at zeta.org.au
Tue Nov 4 09:48:14 PST 2003
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 04-Nov-2003 Lukas Ertl wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> >
> >> I somehow can't get at a good vmcore :-(. But I found out that the
> >> machine boots fine in "Safe Mode", where DMA and hw.ata.wc is turned off.
> >
> > Ok, if I set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 in loader.conf, it boots fine. Could there
> > be some issue with ATAng + new interrupt code?
>
> Can you provide a dmesg please? There may be a weird issue with
> some PPro's for example that I haven't been able to test.
I have noticed the following problems with the new interrupt code so far:
- it conflicts with a few thousand lines of local changes.
- yesterday's backup kernels which I preserved to run benchmarks with
all hang at boot time while probing atapicam devices. Backing out
rev.1.23 of ata-lowlevel.c fixes the hang, but I didn't back up
yesterday's sources so it will take some work to regenerate working
versions of yesterday's kernels.
The following is without the local changes:
- cyintr(int unit) panics becauase it is passed a pointer to somewhere.
I think all compat_isa devices are broken for unit 0 because unit 0
is represented by a null pointer.
- on a BP6, UP kernels without apic work except for cyintr(), but SMP
kernels have problems with missing interrupts for ata devices and hang
at boot time.
Bruce
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