The following reply was made to PR kern/31501; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/31501: reproducible panics with 3.99.9/i386
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 13:41:50 +0200

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 On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:05:01AM +0000, dive@endersgame.net wrote:
 > >Number:         31501
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       NetBSD 3.99.9 panics in a repeatable manner on i386
 [...]
 > fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
 > uvm_fault(0xc0313b20, 0, 0, 1) -> 0xe
 > kernel: page fault trap, code=3D0
 > Stopped in pid 0.1 (swapper) at netbsd:bufq_alloc+0x6b: cmpl    %ebx,0x8(=
 %esi)
 > db> t
 > bufq_alloc(c15fa9c4,22,50,2,12) at netbsd:bufq_alloc+0x6b
 > fdattach(c157e200,c15fa800,c035cee0,0,c03047a0) at netbsd:fdattach+0x75
 > config_attach_loc(c157e200,c02fda50,0,c035cee0,c028fa00) at
 > netbsd:config_attach_loc+0x2cc
 > fdcfinishattach(c157e200,c01e15f0,0,c025fda80,358000) at
 > netbsd:fdcfinishattach+0x110
 > config_process_deferred(c0315144,0,c0314a0,bfeff000,c02fda80) at
 > netbsd:config_process_deferred+0x46
 > configure(0,1,0,0,0) at netbsd:configure+0x64
 > main(0,0,0,0,0) at netbsd:main+0xc9
 >=20
 > At first I thought this might be something to do with the floppy driver, =
 so I
 > removed that and tried again, same result, just at a different point in t=
 he
 > kernel. The hardware is fine, and the ram has been through memtest86 with=
  no
 > problems.
 >=20
 > More detail about the exact hardware configuration can be provided on req=
 uest,
 > but I do not think this is a hardware issue.
 >=20
 > Kernel config used:
 > # jane.endersgame.net kernel configuration [NetBSD (current) i386]
 > # AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (TBred) 2.16ghz, 256KB L2 cache, 1GB DDR333 SDRAM
 > # $egnet: JANE,v 1.104 2005/10/07 10:32:31 dive Exp $
 >=20
 > machine		i386	x86
 >=20
 > ident		"JANE"
 
 Typical issue of not including "conf/std".  Yamamoto-san, I think it
 should be better to have config(1) automatically include it, otherwise
 we'll have reports like this any time we add something there.
 
 So, as you have guessed now, your problem is that you don't have any
 bufq strategy compiled into your kernel.  Now, the kernel should panic
 instead of segfaulting (what happens is that it ends up with
 bufq_strat_dummy and tries to call its init function, which is NULL).
 
 Moreover, fdattach() explicitely requires BUFQ_DISKSORT, so we have to
 make some sort of dependency happen there.
 
 To sum up, we have 3 bugs:
 
  1.  Segfault instead of panic.  Easy enough to solve, we should test
      after the loop if we got bufq_strat_dummy, and panic.  Or even
      make the #ifdef DEBUG block permanent and replace the printf with
      a panic().
 
  2.  fdc/fd doesn't depend on BUFQ_DISKSORT in the config files.  Should
      be easy enough to fix.
 
  3.  Users don't know about conf/std and what to do with it.  Proper way
      to fix that is left as an exercise to the reader.  Even though I
      tend to agree with Yamamoto-san's point on having conf/std
      automatically included, users who know how config(1) works will
      still have a choice, while those who aren't always looking at
      source-changes (can't really blame them) won't be bitten in such
      ways that easily.
 
 --=20
 Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
 "When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
 to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
 KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.
 
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