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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:19:35 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic in pmap_remove_all
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812291116270.1813-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981228205122M.simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>

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On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:

> I got the following panice twice. I used MFS intensively.
> Sorry, I have no coredump.
> 
> panic: pmap_remove_all: pv_table for 858a000 is inconsistent
> db> trace
> Debugger..ng() at Debugger..ng+0x24
> panic..ng() at panic..ng+0xf0
> pmap_remove_all..ng() at pmap_remove_all..ng+0x144
> pmap_page_protect..ng() at pmap_page_protect..ng+0x2c
> vm_page_cache..ng() at vm_page_cache..ng+0xd4
> vm_pageout_scan..ng() at vm_pageout_scan..ng+0x3ac
> vm_pageout..ng() at vm_pageout..ng+0x2e0
> kproc_start..ng() at kproc_start..ng+0x54
> exception_return() at exception_return

These bugs are extremely hard to find (it usually involves adding extra
instrumentation to pmap and spending long periods of time in the
debugger).  I doubt if I can fix it without being able to reproduce it
locally.  Can you give me an idea of what kind of workload triggers the
panic?

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037



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