Re: page fault panic tracked down (selwakeuppri())

From: Don Lewis <truckman_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:42:30 -0800 (PST)
On  6 Jan, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 03:06, Don Lewis wrote:
>> The parameters passed to feed_vchan_16() might be bad in such a way that
>> the KASSERT is happy, but the heap still gets trashed.
>> 
>> If you can't get the KASSERT failure without this code being in a module
>> (or get gdb to debug the module), it might be interesting to change this
>> KASSERT into an "if" test that prints the parameters and anything else
>> of interest and then calls panic().
> 
> As a workaround I just built the sound modules with COPTS=-g and
> installed them.
> 
> Unfortunately I haven't been able to reproduce the previous panic in the
> modules again. I hope I can restore the exact configuration to get the
> "bad bufsize" panic - this time with more debug info.
> 
> This time I got one more page fault panic and then this - looks even
> more random to me
> 
> panic: Most recently used by none
> #0  doadump () at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:240
> #1  0xc04e5178 in boot (howto=256) at
> /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:372
> #2  0xc04e5507 in panic () at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:550
> #3  0xc0632077 in mtrash_ctor (mem=0xc37dcc00, size=0, arg=0x0)
>     at /usr/src/sys/vm/uma_dbg.c:137

Looks like the heap got trashed again, but this time the damage was
first detected on the free list.  Judging by the "none", I suspect that
the memory was overwritten by 0's, which seems to be the typical damage.
Received on Tue Jan 06 2004 - 10:42:43 UTC

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