Subject: Re: i386 snapshot panics all the time
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 05/29/2000 20:12:46
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:30:06AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:15:30PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
>
> > kernel: page fault trap, code=0
> > Stopped at pmap_zero_page_uncached+0x48: repe stosl %es:(%edi)
> > db> t
> > pmap_zero_page_uncached(1388000,0,7fffffff,c34e87c8,c34e87c8) at
> > pmap_zero_page_uncached+0x48
> > uvm_pageidlezero(e000ffe7,c34e87c8,0,7fffffff,c019eec0) at uvm_pageidlezero+0x8c
>
> Sigh! You are not the first person to report wackiness like this.
>
> This is somewhat puzzling to me. I have not seen this problem on
> ANY system I have, and they all are used quite heavily (NFS included).
>
> I suppose it's possible that the Cyrix doesn't work properly with PG_N,
> but that would cause e.g. all PCI memory space access to fail, too (since
> it's mapped PG_N, also).
Not sure of the relevance, but my problem box is also a Cyrix:
cpu0: family 6 model 0 step 0
cpu0: Cyrix 6x86MX (686-class)
Cheers,
Patrick