Re: Loading zfs module results in hangup on i386

From: Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu_at_utahime.org>
Subject: Re: Loading zfs module results in hangup on i386
Date: Sat, 08 May 2021 07:44:15 +0900 (JST)

>> Now I think I know what is the source of problem. After all, on
>> 13.0-RELEASE i386 system simply loading zfs module results in system
>> hang up.
>> 
>> The steps to reproduce it are,
>> 
>> 1. Boot with install media of 13.0-RELEASE i386
>> 2. At the first menu of FreeBSD installer, select 'Shell'.
>> 3. At the shell prompt, type `kldload zfs` and return key.
>> 
>> I confirmed hangup happens with VirtualBox, VMware Player and my bare
>> metal PC environement. So the problem doesn't depend on hardware.
>> 
>> And hangup also happens with 13-STABLE and 14-CURRENT.
> 
> This problem is already reported to Bugzilla.
> 
> Bug 254177 When ZFS is recognized, An i386 machine with a lot of memory hangs.
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=254177

Referencing the bug report, I applied attached patch to d474440ab33 of
main (14-CURRENT). built install image and tried install of ZFS root
i386 system with it. Then it completed successfully with 8GB memory.

Additionally GENERIC kernel recognizes 8GB of memory. And ZFS root
system works fine without any tuning.

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diff --git a/sys/contrib/openzfs/module/zfs/dbuf.c b/sys/contrib/openzfs/module/zfs/dbuf.c
index d48dc7943a2..c85500453fb 100644
--- a/sys/contrib/openzfs/module/zfs/dbuf.c
+++ b/sys/contrib/openzfs/module/zfs/dbuf.c
_at__at_ -796,7 +796,7 _at__at_ dbuf_init(void)
 	 * By default, the table will take up
 	 * totalmem * sizeof(void*) / 8K (1MB per GB with 8-byte pointers).
 	 */
-	while (hsize * zfs_arc_average_blocksize < physmem * PAGESIZE)
+	while (hsize * zfs_arc_average_blocksize < (uint64_t)physmem * PAGESIZE)
 		hsize <<= 1;
 
 retry:
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Yasuhiro Kimura