Re: Instability on amd64 -current

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Gary Duzan wrote:

> > Any suggestions?
>
>   This sounds rather similar to what I was seeing on my box. Chuq is
> looking into the cause, but this patch is a workaround:
>
> Index: sys/arch/amd64/include/types.h
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /usr2/netbsd-cvs/src/sys/arch/amd64/include/types.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.40
> diff -u -r1.40 types.h
> --- sys/arch/amd64/include/types.h      4 Dec 2011 16:24:13 -0000       1.40
> +++ sys/arch/amd64/include/types.h      8 Jan 2012 15:43:41 -0000
> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
> #define __HAVE_RAS
>
> #include "opt_xen.h"
> -#if defined(__x86_64__) && !defined(XEN)
> +#if defined(__x86_64__) && !defined(XEN) && 0
> #define __HAVE_DIRECT_MAP 1
> #define __HAVE_MM_MD_DIRECT_MAPPED_IO
> #define __HAVE_MM_MD_DIRECT_MAPPED_PHYS
> ===================================================================


This has definitely improved the situation immensely!  Systems now have 
uptimes over 24 hours.


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