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Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:23:05 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, core@kame.net
Subject:   Re: size problems with INVARIANTS/DIAGNOSTIC -current kernels
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010042320180.94692-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <14811.11704.600307.685105@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

>  > possibly something is wrong in the loader?
>  > 
> 
> 
> If so, the breakage has not happened recently.  I'm seeing this with a
> 'loader' from late august, a netboot from late august & a netboot
> that's over 1 year old.
> 
> Bear in mind that we seem to run just fine until the first time we
> attempt to call a function from a stack created for us by the
> palcode.    However, that same function is callable when not running
> in an interrupt/trap/etc palcode-created context.
> 
> I've "proved" this to myself by making sure that trap() is actually
> callable from the mainline kernel code (eg, not running out XentMM).
> I put a call to trap() in kern_malloc() & I put a call to printtrap()
> at the top of trap.  I see trap being called from kern_malloc, but
> when its called by XentMM, random stuff happens.

Bizarre. We are running on our own stack before mi_startup is
called() which should be before anything substantial is printed. I wonder
if somehow the ksp value in the context has been corrupted.

-- 
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160




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