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Date:      Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:47:05 +0000
From:      "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha pmap.c src/sys/amd64/amd64 pmap.c src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c src/sys/ia64/ia64 pmap.c
Message-ID:  <20051021194705.GA75578@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200510211942.j9LJghO1030033@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200510211942.j9LJghO1030033@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:42:43PM +0000, Ade Lovett wrote:
>   Specifically panic() in the case where pmap_insert_entry() fails to
>   get a new pv under high system load where the available pv entries
>   have been exhausted before the pagedaemon has a chance to wake up
>   to reclaim some.
>   
>   Prior to this, the NULL pointer dereference ended up causing
>   secondary panics with rather less than useful resulting tracebacks.
>   

This sounds similar to an issue that kris is experiencing on one of
his sparc64 SMP devices. It looks likes vm_map_entry_splay() is crashing
then while vm_fault is running, it recurses a non-recursable mutex
making it difficult to do any debugging. Is it possible that this issue
affects sparc64, too?

-- 
Christian S.J. Peron
csjp@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD Committer
FreeBSD Security Team



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