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Date:      Sun, 11 Nov 2018 11:10:12 +0100
From:      Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 13.0 failing to boot multiuser on one PC due to system utilities crashing during rc scipt
Message-ID:  <5176caee-126f-2709-d09a-0dcf5190e319@madpilot.net>
In-Reply-To: <20181110230744.GN2378@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <62bdb5ff-4d68-cf52-4dd5-f0a3cfa1c788@madpilot.net> <791e3488-b838-5cfd-8dca-8db8c74167a0@madpilot.net> <20181110230744.GN2378@kib.kiev.ua>

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On 11/11/18 00:07, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 05:27:09PM +0100, Guido Falsi wrote:
>> On 10/11/18 13:08, Guido Falsi wrote:
>>> I'll to bisect things, but it will be a slow process.
>>
>> I narrowed it down to r339895.
> I somehow doubt that this is the case.
> 

I did not mean to accuse you. Instead thanks for this reply and the
suggestions. Really appreciated.

I simply found out that removing that commit from my sources gives me a
stable system and reported such finding.

I understand that the actual cause could be an interaction with other
code and am ready to review my findings.

> If you take post-r339895 kernel and start e.g. 11.2-RELEASE userspace
> (untar the installation into jail to avoid reinstallation), does it
> still demonstrate the behaviour ?
> 
> Also try to run pre-r339895 with the 12.0 userspace from e.g. 12.0-BETA4 
> builds.

I'll perform such tests. Please allow me some time to report back what I
get.

> 
>>
>> My impression is that the other conditions not moved inside the ifunc
>> also play a role so such optimization is not possible on all systems.
>>
>>>
>>> I have put dmesg and pciconf output here in case it could be useful:
>>>
>>> https://people.freebsd.org/~madpilot/boot_fail/
> This is haswell, right ?  It is exactly the same micro-arch as the machine
> where I tested this series of changes.

According to Intel website and Wikipedia this is an Ivy Bridge:

https://ark.intel.com/products/65509


I don't know if this makes any difference at all, though.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>



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