Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

[Josh Paetzel]

On 02/05/10 07:27, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:00:55 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote:
>> Hi all, a recent MFC to 7-STABLE has started to cause issues for my VMs
>> on VMware ESXi 3.5u4.  After loading the mpt driver for the LSI disk
>> controller the VM just shuts off.  The workaround is to change the disk
>> controller to the BusLogic type.  Still, it used to work up until last
>> week.  The change was made around January 26th and based on the commits
>> that day I'm guessing it's either r203047 or r203073
>>
>> I have the same issue with both amd64 and i386 VMs.  This affects HEAD
>> and 8-STABLE as well and first affected HEAD over the summer.  (I just
>> worked around it and went about my business at the time. :-/)  I've
>> attached a dmesg from a kernel before the problem and one from after it
>> started.
> 
> What if you set 'hw.clfush_disable=1' from the loader?
> 

For what it's worth, I have two machines running ESXi 4.0 and haven't
encountered this problem.  It's possible this issue affects 3.5 only.

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
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