svn commit: r319702 - head/sys/vm

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, June 08, 2017 05:07:40 PM Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 8, 2017, at 2:37 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thursday, June 08, 2017 12:55:45 PM Bryan Drewery wrote:
> >> On 6/8/17 12:18 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>> Author: jhb
> >>> Date: Thu Jun  8 16:18:41 2017
> >>> New Revision: 319702
> >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/319702
> >>> 
> >>> Log:
> >>>  Fix an off-by-one error in the VM page array on some systems.
> >>> 
> >>>  r31386 changed how the size of the VM page array was calculated to be
> >>>  less wasteful. 
> >> 
> >> r313186
> > 
> > Oops.  FWIW, this commit fixes a reliable panic booting mips and mips64
> > kernels under qemu.  Adrian also reported the same panic on real mips
> > hardware.
> > 
> 
> Any architecture on which we don’t have superpage reservations enabled could experience the panic at boot time.  Amd64, arm, arm64, i386, and sparc64 would never panic because of the memory allocated for the reservation array. 

Even then it seems to not be guaranteed.  The original change has
been in CheriBSD for a while, and we have not seen any panics on boot under
qemu as I saw with plain FreeBSD probably due to slightly different early
memory allocations.

-- 
John Baldwin