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Date:      Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:04:34 +0800
From:      Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
To:        Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, mjacob@FreeBSD.org, linimon@FreeBSD.org, bug-followup@freensd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/112119: system hangs when starts k3b on RELENG_6
Message-ID:  <46315A32.9050900@micom.mng.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070425215130.GA13949@melamine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
References:  <200704251327.l3PDRBvK019864@www.freebsd.org> <20070425215130.GA13949@melamine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>

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Thomas Quinot wrote:
> * Ganbold, 2007-04-25 :
>
>   
>>> Description:
>>>       
>> With atapi-cam.c (rev 1.42.2.3) when running k3b application, system
>> completely hangs on k3b splash screen and I had to use power button only
>> to restart the machine.
>>     
>
> Extremely strange. I can't offer any definite solution at this point,
> since I have no idea how this change could cause a system to hang. Here
> are a few possible investigation ideas:
>
> * AFAIK k3b is just a front-end for command-line tools. You should
>   determine what exact commands are spawned by k3b to identify which of
>   these is causing the apparent hang;
>
> * it would also be useful to enable CAM debugging options (see
>   "man 4 cam", option CAMDEBUG, and flags CAM_DEBUG_TRACE and
>   CAM_DEBUG_SUBTRACE) and to capture all console output up to the hang
>   (for example using a serial console)
>
> * if Scott's hunch of an interrupt storm is correct, then this issue
>   might be related to the DMA problem described under PR 103602, so
>   it would be useful to try the last patch I sent on that PR:
>   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103602&getpatch=12
>
> * if all else fails, please let me know if the attached patch, which
>   reverts part of rev. 1.42.2.3, changes anything.
>   

I will try http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103602&getpatch=12 
patch later today
and let you know.

thanks,

Ganbold

> Thomas.
>
>   




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