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