is rebooting after a page fault disabled in 5.3-release?
Doug White
dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Mon Dec 13 10:30:05 PST 2004
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Joe Rhett wrote:
> As another side note, is there a reason that 5.3 doesn't reboot after page
> faults? The crash and dumpdev man pages still indicate that it should.
> This makes this problem hard to work on (must be at facility to debug..)
It reboots fine on my systems. Do you have DDB compiled in without
KDB_UNATTENDED?
>
> Or is there a new/undocumented configuration option?
>
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:41:59PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > And another, I can now confirm that it is fairly easy to kill 5.3-release
> > during the rebuilding process. The following steps will cause a kernel
> > page fault consistently:
> ...
> > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> > fault virtual address = 0x10
> > ....
> > current process = 1063 (rebuilding ar0 1%)
> > trap number = 12
> > panic: page fault
>
>
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