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Date:      Thu, 15 May 2003 13:19:24 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jonas_B=FClow?= <jonas@servicefactory.se>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Kernel panic on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE
Message-ID:  <3EC377BC.5060708@servicefactory.se>
In-Reply-To: <20030514200331.GD4366@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
References:  <3EC10790.50809@bulow.mine.nu> <20030514100716.GA4410@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <3EC22DB4.70409@bulow.mine.nu> <20030514200331.GD4366@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>

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Hi,

Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:51:16PM +0200, Jonas Bulow wrote:
> 
>>Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:56:16PM +0200, Jonas Bulow wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I need some help to understand a backtrace.
>>>
>>>
>>>>Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
>>>>instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xc023ceeb
>>>>stack pointer           = 0x10:0xcf7d9ea4
>>>>frame pointer           = 0x10:0xcf7d9ec0
>>>>code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>>>>                     = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
>>>>processor eflags        = resume, IOPL = 0
>>>>current process         = Idle
>>>>interrupt mask          = net tty bio cam
>>>>trap number             = 9
>>>>panic: general protection fault
>>>
>>>...
>>>
>>>
>>>>#17 0xc023d6fb in trap (frame={tf_fs = 16, tf_es = 134938640, tf_ds = 
>>>>-982253552, tf_edi = -971835344, tf_esi = 32,
>>>>   tf_ebp = -813850944, tf_isp = -813850992, tf_ebx = -1070885216, 
>>>>tf_edx = -812732416, tf_ecx = -831483840,
>>>>   tf_eax = 336283586, tf_trapno = 9, tf_err = 32, tf_eip = 
>>>>-1071395093, tf_cs = 8, tf_eflags = 65670, tf_esp = -1072211888,
>>>>   tf_ss = -831471360}) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:636
>>>>#18 0xc023ceeb in sw1a ()
>>>>#19 0xc0174ff1 in tsleep (ident=0xce70c100, priority=288, 
>>>>wmesg=0xc02530a5 "wait", timo=0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c:479
>>>
>>>
>>>#18 is the underlying problem.  sw1a() is in /sys/i386/i386/swtch.s
>>>and you might like to disassemble the code around 0xc023ceeb to see
>>>exactly where it is dying.  GPF is a catch-all category so it's
>>>difficult to know exactly why you're getting it without knowing the
>>>actual instruction it dies on.
>>
>>This is beyond my skills. :-) Does the disassemble say anything usefull?
>>
>>(kgdb) disassemble 0xc023ceeb
> 
> ...
> 
>>0xc023cecf <sw1a+93>:   mov    $0xc0298550,%edi
>>0xc023ced4 <sw1a+98>:   mov    0xc0298558,%ebx
>>0xc023ceda <sw1a+104>:  mov    0x0(%edi),%eax
>>0xc023cedd <sw1a+107>:  mov    %eax,0x0(%ebx)
>>0xc023cee0 <sw1a+110>:  mov    0x4(%edi),%eax
>>0xc023cee3 <sw1a+113>:  mov    %eax,0x4(%ebx)
>>0xc023cee6 <sw1a+116>:  mov    $0x20,%esi
>>0xc023ceeb <sw1a+121>:  ltr    %si
> 
> 
> It's dying trying to switch tasks.  %edi isn't _common_tssd so it's a
> private TSS.  This is a bit beyond my skills to debug remotely - I
> don't suppose you have a iA32 system programming manual handy?  

I have the manuals found at 
http://developer.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/ . Chapter 6 in 
volume 3 seems to be the home work for me. :-)

 > You
> could try printing the 8 bytes following %edi in frame #18
> (0xc612f830) 

(kgdb) x/8xb 0xc612f830
0xc612f830:     0x10    0x02    0x00    0x00    0xc2    0x47    0x0b    0x14


> and the TSS they point to (if you can - I can't
> quickly/easily describe how to convert the TSS descriptor to the TSS
> address).

I don't know how to do that.

> 
> Whilst you're at it, can you print all the registers at frame #18.

(kgdb) up
#18 0xc023ceeb in sw1a ()
(kgdb) info registers
eax            0x0      0
ecx            0x0      0
edx            0x0      0
ebx            0xffffffff       -1
esp            0xcf7d9a0c       0xcf7d9a0c
ebp            0xcf7d9ec0       0xcf7d9ec0
esi            0x20     32
edi            0xc612f830       -971835344
eip            0xc022f370       0xc022f370
eflags         0x0      0
cs             0x0      0
ss             0x0      0
ds             0x0      0
es             0x0      0
fs             cannot read u area ptr for proc at 0

/jonas

> 
> Peter
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