Re: repeatable panic on pageout with 945GM

On 06/04/16 15:02, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 02:59:01PM -0400, Michael Butler wrote:
>> On 06/04/16 13:47, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>
>>  [ .. snip .. ]
>>
>>> I believe that this is a bug in amd64 pmap. Fictitious pages are not
>>> promoted, in particular, the pv_table array does not span over the
>>> dynamically registered fictitious ranges. As result, pa_to_pvh() returns
>>> garbage and pvh must not be accessed in the case of 'small_mappings' in
>>> several pmap functions.  It is typically not accessed, except in case
>>> when we have to drop and reacquire pv lock, to avoid LOR with pmap.
>>>
>>> i386 does not have the issue, due to pvh_global_lock.
>>>
>>> Below is the supposed fix (not tested).
>>
>>  [ .. snip .. ]
>>
>> Is this something I should test and, should it not introduce any other
>> issues, might get committed?
> 
> Would be nice to test.  I expect that this patch is going to be committed,
> after the review.

Now heading into the 5th day of panic-free operation using your patch
with the previous band-aid removed - thanks! :-)

	imb