Rebuild all network-related kernel modules on 8-current due to vnet allocator change

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 15 09:22:05 UTC 2009


On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Florian Smeets wrote:

>>>> My kernel don't have any VIMAGE options.
>>>> 
>>>> The system is working flawless before the upgrade.
>>>> 
>>>> If you need any/more information about this, just let me know.
>>> 
>>> I've just commented out the panic() in link_elf_obj.c and now i'm able to 
>>> create vlans again.
>> 
>> This assertion may well be too conservative -- is there any chance you have 
>> a kernel built with the DTrace CTF support? It may be using progbits, in 
>> which case removing the assertion is the right solution. I'll test this 
>> hypothesis.
>
> i'm also seeing this panic, it happens when zfs.ko is loaded in my case. I 
> don't have anything DTrace CTF related in my kernel.

OK.  I'm not able to reproduce it here, but clearly there must be some ELF/etc 
case I haven't thought of or understood.  I've committed a removal of the 
assertion, r195707 and will debug it offline, we can re-add it if I come up 
with a more refined/useful version.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge


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