Subject: Re: panic on i386
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefan_Kr=FCger?= <skrueger@meinberlikomm.de>
List: current-users
Date: 09/27/2004 19:40:43
Patrick Welche wrote:
> With today's source code (13:36 UTC), I just built a kernel, booted and got:
> 
> panic: kernel diagnostic assertion "l->l_holdcnt == 0" failed: file
>   "../../../../arch/i386/i386/syscall.c", line 165
> 
> Stopped in ... swapctl
> 
> Unfortunately, no core dump.. (Is it possible when the dump device is much
> smaller than memory?)
sure if you can reproduce the crash and w/ the same sources, just add

options REALEXTMEM=32129

to your kernconf and recompile, this should change the memory the kernel 
sees/uses to 32MB, which should be small enough for your dump device ;-)

don't forget to build a debug kernel...

> Aug 16th kernel works fine. I don't really have much to go on.. :/
> 
> Cheers,
hope this helps

> Patrick
SK