AMD64 panic on boot

Randall Stewart rrs at cisco.com
Tue Oct 9 04:02:09 PDT 2007


Ok... after a bit of poking around
and recompiling.. and yet another sync
to current.. its a no-op..  Turns out
I had some modified files that I did not realize
on my machine .. that were actually old .. not new..

So, with the proper update to current.. all is well both
my 8 core AMD's are back up again (Michael, you should
be able to access these now).

R

Randall Stewart wrote:
> Randall Stewart wrote:
> 
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I just updated to the latest.. and I am seeing a crash on
>> boot up of my 8-core Xeon machines (running in AMD mode).
>>
>> its a
>>
>> pagefault UA= 0x2b
>>
>> sysctl_handle_int+0x27
>> syscall+0x254
>> Xfast_syscall+0xab
>>
>> IP= 0xffffffff8048e7d7
>>
>>
>> I can't get a core unfortunately.. I get a core device
>> unavailable..
>>
>> I have one of the machines sitting in a DDB> prompt
>> and its twin sitting on the old kernel..
>>
>> Let me know how I can help.. and in the mean time I will poke
>> around in kgdb on the running machine :-)
>>
>> R
> 
> Hmm.. it appears to be in..
> 0xffffffff8048e2e7 is in sysctl_handle_int 
> (../../../kern/kern_sysctl.c:816).
> 811              */
> 812             if (arg1)
> 813                     tmpout = *(int *)arg1;
> 814             else
> 815                     tmpout = arg2;
> 816             error = SYSCTL_OUT(req, &tmpout, sizeof(int));
> 817
> 818             if (error || !req->newptr)
> 819                     return (error);
> 
> 
> So its trying to copy out and faulting.. not sure what..
> 
> Let me know if there is some info I can poke out of DDB
> 
> R
> 
> 


-- 
Randall Stewart
NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc.
803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell)


More information about the freebsd-current mailing list