Panic on boot with new ACPI-CA
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Nov 3 06:24:52 PST 2005
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:47 pm, Munehiro Matsuda wrote:
> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at linux.gr>
> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 04:09:02 +0200
>
> ::On 2005-11-03 03:47, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> ::> On 2005-11-02 17:03, Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> wrote:
> ::> > As I mentioned to Jung-uk, the problem is likely an error in
> ::> > acpi-ca modifying memory after it has freed it. The way to
> ::> > track this down is to enable memguard(9). See the man page for
> ::> > info. You need to add options DEBUG_MEMGUARD to your kernel,
> ::> > set the malloc type to watch to M_ACPICA, and rebuild your
> ::> > kernel and modules. Memguard sets page permissions so we can
> ::> > catch the culprit who is modifying the memory.
> ::>
> ::> This is exactly the messgae printed on my console at panic time
> ::> -- of memory modified after free. I'm building a kernel with
> ::> MEMGUARD now, but it's probably going to be a bit hard to get a
> ::> kernel dump, because the panic happens before disks are available
> ::> and I don't have a serial console here.
> ::
> ::Does the following look ok for using memguard(9) with M_ACPICA?
> ::
> ::%%% begin acpica-memguard.patch
> ::Index: kern/kern_malloc.c
> ::===================================================================
> ::RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c,v
> ::retrieving revision 1.148
> ::diff -u -r1.148 kern_malloc.c
> ::--- kern/kern_malloc.c 20 Oct 2005 21:28:31 -0000 1.148
> ::+++ kern/kern_malloc.c 3 Nov 2005 02:04:02 -0000
> ::@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@
> :: #include <vm/uma_int.h>
> :: #include <vm/uma_dbg.h>
> ::
> ::+MALLOC_DECLARE(M_ACPICA);
> ::+
> :: #ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
> :: #include <vm/memguard.h>
> :: #endif
> ::@@ -305,7 +307,7 @@
> ::
> :: #ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
> :: /* XXX CHANGEME! */
> ::- if (mtp == M_SUBPROC)
> ::+ if (mtp == M_ACPICA)
> :: return memguard_alloc(size, flags);
> :: #endif
> ::
> ::%%% end acpica-memguard.patch
>
> Hi,
>
> There are few more "CHANGEME!" places.
> I used following:
>
> @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
>
> #ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
> #include <vm/memguard.h>
> +MALLOC_DECLARE(M_ACPICA);
> #endif
>
> #if defined(INVARIANTS) && defined(__i386__)
> @@ -305,7 +306,7 @@
>
> #ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
> /* XXX CHANGEME! */
> - if (mtp == M_SUBPROC)
> + if (mtp == M_ACPICA)
> return memguard_alloc(size, flags);
> #endif
>
> @@ -360,7 +361,7 @@
>
> #ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
> /* XXX CHANGEME! */
> - if (mtp == M_SUBPROC) {
> + if (mtp == M_ACPICA) {
> memguard_free(addr);
> return;
> }
> @@ -424,7 +425,7 @@
>
> #ifdef DEBUG_MEMGUARD
> /* XXX: CHANGEME! */
> -if (mtp == M_SUBPROC) {
> +if (mtp == M_ACPICA) {
> slab = NULL;
> alloc = size;
> } else {
Someone should fix it so that the type is a kernel option so you can do:
options MEMGUARD=M_ACPICA
or some such.
--
John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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