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Date:      Sat, 07 Nov 1998 08:32:38 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Grrr... calcru: negative time blah blah blah 
Message-ID:  <10253.910423958@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Nov 1998 12:42:13 %2B0800." <199811070442.MAA18044@spinner.netplex.com.au> 

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In message <199811070442.MAA18044@spinner.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes:

>> I'm starting to think the problem in this case is an interrupt storm,
>> but I'm not sure how to debug it. If I set up a second system to do
>> a remote gdb of the first one, can I single step through things like
>> interrupt handlers without Weird Things (tm) happening?
>
>Just a thought that might be worth checking into..  Is the kstack growing 
>down into struct pstats, the sigacts, and perhaps pcb?  This would be 
>highly dependent on interrupt handlers, machine load (amount of nesting) 
>etc and could explain why it hits some more than others.

Peter, this would probably lead to much more bogosity than what we see
here, but you suggestion for a trapdoor under the stack is certainly
worthwhile in its own right.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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