From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 00:49:29 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5149F779; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:49:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cross+freebsd@distal.com) Received: from mail.distal.com (mail.distal.com [IPv6:2001:470:e24c:200::ae25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D8A8C; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from magrathea.distal.com (magrathea.distal.com [IPv6:2001:470:e24c:200:ea06:88ff:feca:960e]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.distal.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r0I0nPuC014155 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:49:25 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: Changes to kern.geom.debugflags? From: Chris Ross In-Reply-To: <50F82846.6030104@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:49:24 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <315EDE17-4995-4819-BC82-E9B7D942E82A@distal.com> References: <7AA0B5D0-D49C-4D5A-8FA0-AA57C091C040@distal.com> <6A0C1005-F328-4C4C-BB83-CA463BD85127@distal.com> <20121225232507.GA47735@alchemy.franken.de> <8D01A854-97D9-4F1F-906A-7AB59BF8850B@distal.com> <6FC4189B-85FA-466F-AA00-C660E9C16367@distal.com> <20121230032403.GA29164@pix.net> <56B28B8A-2284-421D-A666-A21F995C7640@distal.com> <20130104234616.GA37999@alchemy.franken.de> <50F82846.6030104@FreeBSD.org> To: Andriy Gapon X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (mail.distal.com [IPv6:2001:470:e24c:200::ae25]); Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:49:26 -0500 (EST) Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" , Kurt Lidl , "freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org" , Marius Strobl X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:49:29 -0000 On Jan 17, 2013, at 11:35 , Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 08/01/2013 03:53 Chris Ross said the following: >>=20 >> Out of curiosity, I did try 242229. It boots. So. the problem = occurred with 242230, which=20 >> came from 241289. FYI. >=20 > Chris, >=20 > thank you for triaging and analyzing this problem. And sorry for the = long delay > (caused by the New Year craziness you mentioned earlier). >=20 > The problem is that arch_zfs_probe methods are expected only to probe = for ZFS > disks/partitions, but they are not allowed to execute any other ZFS = operations. > I assumed this to be true and forgot to check sparc64_zfs_probe. Mea = culpa. >=20 > Could you please test the following patch? Thank you, Andriy. Much as you'd expect, that patch solves the = problem. I get some of the printf()s that I'd put into zfs_fmtdev(), and the system loads = successfully. Please commit that patch, and if you could, change the comment just = below the last portion of it that is now not quite accurate (since you moved mentioned = code). Thanks again! How long will this take to get to stable/9? Being new = to FreeBSD, I'm not too familiar with the process of HEAD/stable/etc. (In NetBSD, = it would be a commit followed by a pull request.) - Chris