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Date:      Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:54:10 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, brian@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Revision 1.88 of kern_linker.c breaks module loading for diskless 
Message-ID:  <200204260954.g3Q9sAxH001077@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>  of "Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:28:42 %2B0200." <20020426092705.X795-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> 

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> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> BS>The intent is to discover whether there's a filesystem yet (vn_open()
> BS>will die horribly otherwise).
> BS>
> BS>My use of rootdev is (obviously) flawed.  AFAICT, either rootvp
> BS>or rootvnode should be used, but I can't tell the difference between
> BS>the two at a glance and am lacking development resources right now
> BS>(my development box seems to enjoy dropping cores too frequently to
> BS>build a kernel at the moment).
> BS>
> BS>If somebody could test that rootvnode or rootvp are non-NULL after
> BS>an NFS-mounted root is set up, I'd thankfully approve the quick
> BS>fix... :*)
> 
> dlc1# gdb -k /boot/kernel/kernel /dev/mem
> (no debugging symbols found)...
> IdlePTD at phsyical address 0x00392000
> initial pcb at physical address 0x082bdda0
> panic messages:
> ---
> ---
> #0  0xc017b968 in mi_switch ()
> (kgdb) p rootdev
> $1 = -1
> (kgdb) p rootvnode
> $2 = -843452416
> (kgdb) p rootvp
> $3 = -843452416
> (kgdb)
> 
> They obviously point to the same thing and are non-NULL (root is NFS).

Thanks.  I've committed the change.

> harti
> -- 
> harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private
>               brandt@fokus.fhg.de

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