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Date:      Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:48:26 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-jail@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: debugging frequent kernel panics on 8.2-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <4E4FE55A.9000101@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <82E865FBA30747078AF6EE3C1701F973@multiplay.co.uk>
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on 20/08/2011 18:51 Steven Hartland said the following:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andriy Gapon" <avg@FreeBSD.org>
> 
>> BTW, I suspect the following scenario, but I am not able to verify it either via
>> testing or in the code:
>> - last process in a dying jail exits
>> - pr_uref of the jail reaches zero
>> - pr_uref of prison0 gets decremented
>> - you attach to the jail and resurrect it
>> - but pr_uref of prison0 stays decremented
>>
>> Repeat this enough times and prison0.pr_uref reaches zero.
>> To reach zero even sooner just kill enough of non-jailed processes.
> 
> I've just checked across a number of the panic dumps from the
> past few days and they all have prison0.pr_uref = 0 which confirms
> the cause of the panic.
> 
> I've tried scripting continuous jail start stops, but even after 1000's
> of iterations have been unable to trigger this on my test machine, so
> I'm going to dig into the jail code to see if I can find out how its
> incorrectly decrementing prison0 via inspection.

Steve,

thanks for doing this!  I'll reiterate my suspicion just in case - I think that
you should look for the cases where you stop a jail, but then re-attach and
resurrect the jail before it's completely dead.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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