Subject: Re: port-alpha/35448: memory management fault trap during heavy
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/22/2007 14:36:25
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, agrier@poofygoof.com wrote:

> - the trap:
>
> CPU 0: fatal kernel trap:
>
> CPU 0    trap entry = 0x2 (memory management fault)
> CPU 0    a0         = 0xfffffe0108266000
> CPU 0    a1         = 0x1
> CPU 0    a2         = 0x0
> CPU 0    pc         = 0xfffffc00007ecde0
> CPU 0    ra         = 0xfffffc000035f9ac
> CPU 0    pv         = 0x0
> CPU 0    curlwp    = 0xfffffc000fcd2660
> CPU 0        pid = 335, comm = nfsio
...
> (gdb) list *0xfffffc00007ecde0 # pc from the trap
> 0xfffffc00007ecde0 is in in4_cksum
> (/projects/NetBSD/src/sys/netinet/in4_cksum.c:175).

   A preliminary analysis seems to indicate the trap occurred where 
in4_cksum is summing 16 words in an unrolled loop.  If I understand the 
trap registers correctly, it looks like the address causing the trap is 
0xfffffe0108266000 (the contents of a0 above).  Running pmap(1) against 
the coredump and kernel file seems to indicate that the address is not 
within the current kernel's mapped address space.  The gdb backtrace 
fails, so it's a little hard to figure out where it came from.  I'm going 
to start groveling through the stack myself to see if I can dig out the 
parameters to the in4_cksum() call, and if I can follow the traceback 
manually.

   It might be helpful if a backtrace from ddb could be obtained (although 
my recent experience with a 4.0_BETA [not 4.0_BETA2 yet] kernel was unable 
to get a good backtrace on my own machine).

> - other misc foo
>
> ps won't grok the coredump:
>
> arwen$ ps -N netbsd.gdb -M /var/crash/netbsd.0.core
> ps: can't read proc credentials at 0xfffffc000ade3480: Undefined error: 0

   There's an xps gdb script in src/sys/gdbscripts that is able to display 
some process information (and could be extended to show more process
details).

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA