reboot after panic: vm_page_unwire: invalid wire count: 0
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 13 16:49:36 PST 2007
Kip Macy wrote:
> Unfortunately, ZERO_COPY_SOCKETs have long been a known source of
> problems. I think also, when a page is copied as part of COW the new
> page is unwired (see pmap_copy et al.), this could lead to
> socow_iodone unwiring after send a page that was not wired. An added
> issue is that parts of the VM assume that COW and wired are mutually
> exclusive which the socow code violates.
>
> At some point in the near future I may be adding support for doing
> zero copy send without COW for blocking sockets. The one down side of
> this approach is that if you have multiple threads in your process it
> widens the window during which they can stomp on data that you're
> sending. Nonetheless, this would be a bug in the application code.
> More complicated would be zero-copy non-COW send on non-blocking
> sockets as it would require an extension to kevent for completion
> notification.
>
> In the meantime, your best bet is to disable ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS.
There is a chance this was a recent regression, previously in 7.0 they
were believed to work.
Kris
>
>
> -Kip
>
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2007 1:59 PM, Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.org> wrote:
>> On Nov 13, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Vlad GALU wrote:
>>
>>>> vmio = 1
>>>> offset = Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x93
>>>> (kgdb)
>>>>
>>> Do you happen to have ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS in your kernel config?
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, I do. Are they known to be bad under certain loads or just in
>> general. I don't have this issue with any other web server running
>> the same kernel config but those are amd64 boxes mostly.
>>
>>
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