Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:38:41 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: peter@FreeBSD.ORG, assar@sics.se, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/15707: bad trap in mprotect Message-ID: <199912301938.LAA77035@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199912301906.LAA50571@freefall.freebsd.org>
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:Synopsis: bad trap in mprotect
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:Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->dillon
:Responsible-Changed-By: peter
:Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Dec 30 11:04:49 PST 1999
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:Matt, can you take a look at this please?
Sure. I may not be able to get to it until early january. I can
make a few suggestions to Assar in the mean time: First thing to
do is to turn off DIAGNOSTIC in your kernel config. It appears
to be there in two places so be sure you comment out both.
I doubt that that DIAGNOSTIC is the problem, but it has been known to
cause problems. ElectricFence makes very heavy use of the VM system by
allocating two pages around each malloc(). Due to the number of
vm_map_entry's that will be created, it is possible that the kernel
is running out of KVM, so please also check:
apollo:/usr/src/sys/vm# vmstat -z
...
and
apollo:/usr/src/sys/vm# vmstat -m
...
While you are running your test, run the above command once a second
or so. The panic is definitely a bug - at the very least it should
tell us if its running out resources.
However, since the fault address is non-NULL, there is a good chance
that the huge size of the map_entry list is causing a previously
unknown race condition to rear its ugly head. Most likely you have
found a real bug somewhere in the code.
I should be able to reproduce the crash when I have time in January
to take up the problem.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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