On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 10:39:08AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 11:15:24AM +0200, Renaud Allard wrote:
> > From: Renaud Allard <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: amd64 7.9 GENERIC.MP: reproducible panic a few minutes after
> > Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 11:15:24 +0200
> > 
> > On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 03:49:18PM +0200, Renaud Allard wrote:
> > > From: Renaud Allard <[email protected]>
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: amd64 7.9 GENERIC.MP: reproducible panic a few minutes after
> > > Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 15:49:18 +0200
> > > 
> > > boot on ProLiant DL360 G7
> > > Reply-To: 
> > > 
> > > 7.9 release amd64 bsd.mp panics reproducibly about one minute after
> > > boot on a HP ProLiant DL360 G7. Rolling back to 7.8 GENERIC.MP on
> > > the same hardware and configuration makes the box stable again.
> > > 
> > > I reinstalled 7.9 twice from different sources to be sure.
> > > 
> > 
> > I tried to replicate the behaviour using 3 VMs without success
> > on a 95 minutes stress test with iperf
> > 
> >      +--------+        +----------+      +--------+                         
> >                                           
> >      |  VM3   |  LAN   |   VM1    | WAN  |  VM2   |                         
> >                                           
> >      |  lan   |--------|  router  |------|  ISP   |                         
> >                                           
> >      |        |  em1   |em2    em1|  em1 |        |                         
> >                                           
> >      +--------+        +----------+      +--------+                         
> >                                           
> > 
> > Everything the DL360's stack would do: wg encap -> wg_deliver_out on
> > softnet -W wg_send -> sosend -> udp_output -> ip_output ->
> > pppoe -> sppp -> em -> vSwitch; and the reverse direction.
> > Plus periodic carp flap + wg rehandshake.
> > 
> > The only differences being the chipset and a simpler pf ruleset
> 
> I disabled carp and decided to retry upgrading to 7.9 again.
> Unfortunately, it failed again after 1-2 minutes with only
> "attempt to execute user address 0x0 in supervisor mode" printed
> no keyboard, no ddb, no other message, completely hung.
> 
> Could it be the bnx driver with the network changes which occured
> in December 2025?
> 
> Unfortunately, this is my main machine and can't keep playing
> with it down all day long.
 
Now if you have a spare dual-port em pci-e card around you could try
bypassing the bnx(4). bnx(4) is rare enough that bugs may stay undetected
for a while.

-- 
:wq Claudio

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