Network/fxp related panic in 5.4?

[Eirik Øverby]

Hi all,

I recently re-enabled SMP on one of my 5.4 servers (dual intel p3),  
and after a relatively short while (couple of days) it starts acting  
up. Today it was frozen and had jumped into kernel debugger on serial  
console. Problem is that my serial console was controlled by a  
terminal at work, and when I got home it seemed that the work  
terminal had disconnected. All I could do was a 'trace' - I don't  
have the panic screen (if any) nor do I have any other output because  
the watchdog triggered the powerswitch cycle just after I got the trace:

Tracing pid 29 tid 100000 td 0xc22a0000
fxp_intr_body(c2404000,c2404000,40,ffffffff,8) at fxp_intr_body+0xd0
fxp_intr(c2404000,0,0,0,0) at fxp_intr+0x14e
ithread_loop(c22f6500,e3384d38,0,0,0) at ithread_loop+0x1b8
fork_exit(c06a9150,c22f6500,e3384d38) at fork_exit+0x80
fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x8
--- trap 0x1, eip = 0, esp = 0xe3384d6c, ebp = 0 ---
db>

What makes me wonder is ... When I connected the serial console, the  
db> prompt was already there. Does that mean that the work terminal  
disconnect somehow sent a telnet break, and triggered the kernel  
debugger? I.e. - this was no panic, but a stupid serial console hiccup?

Is there any way to prevent this in the future - like changing the  
control character that would trigger the kernel debugger? (I have  
BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER in my kernel config..)

Thanks,
/Eirik