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Date:      Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:14:12 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel-lucent.com.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alan Cox <alc@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7.1 panic "vm_page_startup: inconsistent page counts"
Message-ID:  <20090316021412.GI5857@pjdesk.au.alcatel-lucent.com>
In-Reply-To: <200903120846.50630.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <20090312043646.GB8352@pjdesk.au.alcatel-lucent.com> <200903120846.50630.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On 2009-Mar-12 08:46:50 -0400, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>On Thursday 12 March 2009 12:36:46 am Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> I'm trying to upgrade an 11 month old FreeBSD 7 image in a VMware
>> 4.5.2 guest to an up-to-date -stable and it panics as above.  I've
>> added a printf to report the two counts and there's a difference of
>> one page.  I don't have any problems with the old 7-stable image or
>> up-to-date 6-stable or -current using the same VMware version.
>>=20
>> A screendump for a verbose boot can be found at
>> http://imagebin.ca/img/wahNNw.gif
>>=20
>> Can I safely delete the assert?
>
>I don't think so, I would report it to Alan.  The one earlier report of th=
is=20
>didn't include the detail that it was only off by one page.

This is a bit moot now since you've disabled the test but rolling back
to a kernel from 26th Feb (before the superpages MFC) doesn't have the
page count discrepancy.

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Peter Jeremy

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