Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:51:54 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some SCSI(?) problems whilst running SMP Message-ID: <199810131951.VAA09544@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:49:35 CST." <199810131849.MAA10377@narnia.plutotech.com> References: <199810131849.MAA10377@narnia.plutotech.com>
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"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > Crap. I was hoping this problem had been resolved since the people who > usually complain about it (Hi Mark M.!) have been silent in recent months. I have been running in single-cpu mode to get Perl5 out. :-) (Hi!) > My guess is that the callout free list has become corrupted somehow, but > I don't know enough about our SMP implementation to know where to start > looking for re-entrancy problems. All reports I've seen of this problem > have been only under SMP and I don't have any SMP equipment here in order > to try and reproduce the problem with. Can you turn the printf in > sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c:ahc_timeout() into a panic, drop into GDB, and > examine the data structures in kern_timeout.c? I can still offer you a login on a box to do this if you like? I have the serial cable set up, and I've been practising doing this... M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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