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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:08:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ACPI instability on Sony VAIOs?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021014160859.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021014195346.GN19874@procyon.firepipe.net>

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On 14-Oct-2002 Will Andrews wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:40:18PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> *sigh*, this is not related to his problem.  I think the ACPI PCI
>> link code has a bug in that it tries to free memory it has not
>> allocated (including actual error messages and a trace from ddb()
>> could help verify this) and has nothing to do with the TLB on the
>> CPU.
> 
> In fact, that is what appears to be the problem (panic() freeing
> memory that doesn't exist), but I can't get a traceback without
> the debugger on a remote system... unless I manually copy it...

DDB over a serial console and 'tr'?
You can also get the dmesg up to the point in question with the
serial console as well which would help.  I'm assuming you can
setup the serial console since you are doing remote gdb. :)

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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