Robert William Fuller wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Kyle, > > > > given that what happens looks ever-so-slightly different each time, a > > hardware glitch could be possible; to exclude this, would you happen to > > know whether these panics occurred before build 78 as well ? If they occur > > if you use the b77 hsfs module on your post-b78 system ? Does the machine > > you're using have a history of hardware issues, or other symptoms that'd > > point at flaky hardware (such as e.g. ZFS block checksumming errors) ? > > Did anybody else notice they're all NULL pointer de-references??? It's > probably not a hardware problem.... For example, if it's a memory > problem, then you'll often see random pointers, but not 3 NULL pointers > in a row....
Yep, I noticed that, too. IIRC a bug like ``kmem_free(NULL, size)'' somewhere in the kernel can have the effect that a subsequent ``kmem_alloc(size, KM_SLEEP)'' somewhere else in the kernel will return with a NULL pointer! (Assuming you run release bits) For that reason I did suggest to Kyle to try to reproduce this hsfs mount panic with kmem heap checking enabled. Add the following line to /etc/system, reboot, retry to reproduce the hsfs mount panic: set kmem_flags=0xf _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
