On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:35:44PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 24 September 2004 08:24 pm, Andy Farkas wrote: > > I have been having this problem for a few weeks now. Glad I'm not the only > > one. My box is a 4xPPro running 5.3-BETA5. It panics with either ULE > > or 4BSD. > > > > My theory is that a physical IPI gets lost somewhere and the kerenl spins > > waiting for it. But thats just a stab in the dark because nobody cares to > > explain why IPI's would be stuck. > > The panic has to do with a previous IPI not finished being sent from the same > CPU. I've yet to determine why this happens. You can try editing > sys/i386/i386/local_apic.c and turning on 'DETECT_DEADLOCK' (I think it is > just commented out) and seeing if that improves stability. I also see this > on a 4xPIIXeon system I use for testing. Can KTR logging be leveraged to find the root cause(s) of these deadlocks, or is it just so wildly unpredictable that it would be of no use? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green_at_FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\Received on Mon Sep 27 2004 - 19:55:18 UTC
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