Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed May 30 15:58:15 UTC 2012


On Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:47:46 am Mark Felder wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above
> > information in it so we don't lose it?
> >
> 
> I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently  
> fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our  
> business uses FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent  
> fix as much as anyone else :-)
> 
> The reason I've hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any  
> truly useful or concrete evidence of where the problem lies. After Dane  
> Foster contacted me and told me he could recreate the crash on demand with  
> his workload it was easier to narrow things down. The suggestion that it  
> was an interrupts issue (by possibly Bjoern Zeeb?) and Dane's discovery  
> that his crashes ceased when em0 and mpt0 share an IRQ, but em0 is  
> completely unused was starting to prove there is some strong evidence here  
> in favor of the interrupts issue.
> 
> Dane, what's the status on your end? Has your fix still been successful?  
> Is it also stable if you simply set hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="1" ?

Hmm, so the set of ps output you have from DDB shows a lot of runnable 
processes and swi6 (Giant taskq) as the only running thread (all consistent
with your hang).  (And that is from your Ctrl-Alt-Esc)

Do you only have one CPU in this VM?  If not, do you know which threads
the other CPUs were running (e.g. do you have ps7.png, etc.)?

-- 
John Baldwin


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