On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:17:26PM +0100, Milan Obuch wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2008, Milan Obuch wrote: > > On Sunday 17 February 2008, Robert Watson wrote: > > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Milan Obuch wrote: > > > >> I have tested 4-port Rhine III(6105LOM) and I never seen this hangs. > > > >> Does this also happen on other network interface too? When the system > > > >> hangs, would you break into DDB and show me the output of 'show > > > >> alllocks' and 'ps'? > > > > > > > > I need some tests with another box. I was not able to break into DDB. > > > > Ctrl-Alt-Esc worked until hang. Hang was really hard, Ctrl-Alt-Esc did > > > > not invoke DDB. I do not feel if_vr is culprit here, more probably PCI > > > > bus got somehow locked, but I have no idea how could I test it > > > > currently. > > > > > > FYI, there are known issues with the effectiveness of syscons > > > ctrl-alt-esc to get into the debugger -- if you haven't tried with a > > > serial break on a serial console, you might want to do so. This is > > > because syscons's interrupt handler acquires the Giant lock in an > > > ithread, requiring a lot more things to be happy to succeed. In > > > constrast, sio (and friends) use fast interrupt handlers and no Giant > > > lock on the way to processing the break request. It may well be that a > > > serial break doesn't get into DDB for you, but it's worth trying... > > > > > > Robert N M Watson > > > Computer Laboratory > > > University of Cambridge > > > > You are right, after rebuilding kernel with BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER I am able to > > get requested data. BTW, I can't find just now what ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER > > means... > > > > After kldload if_vr, dhclient vr0 and ping -f <someaddress> in a minute > > system freezes. > > > > Correction... as I moved cable from on-board re0 to vr0, system remembered arp > table entry and did not actually try to use vr0. Now I repeated it, but boot > system with cable in vr0. This time it hangs right after ping <>, and break > does not enter debugger... hard hang. I tried it twice, the same result... > > So no data to check, actually, only hard hang. > I've put up a new version under the old URL. It's not tested in sparc64 but it seems to work on i386. Would you give it spin? -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeonReceived on Mon Feb 18 2008 - 07:18:13 UTC
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