Subject: Re: couldn't ping cpus
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/19/2003 17:17:17
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:13:12AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> 
>    On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 08:02:15AM -0800, Jon Buller wrote:
>    > In message <20030119154151.GA3236@antioche.eu.org>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>    > >Hi,
>    > >I've a SMP problem on my dual-CPU ss20, running a kernel as of today:
>    > >
>    > >when running a build.sh -j4, it hang with
>    > >xcall(cpu1,0xfoo): couldn't ping cpus: cpu0
>    > >After that the box is dead, doesn't even react to stop-A.
>    > >Needs a power cycle.
>    > >I don't have LOCKDEBUG compiled in, only DIAGNOSTIC.
>    > >Do other peoples still see this problem on MP supersparc ?
>    > 
>    > I have the "LOCKDEBUG spl fix" in, and haven't seen a single xcall
>    
>    I tried this fix too, it didn't help
>    I'll try again with LOCKDEBUG
> 
> 
> 
> FWIW, my ss20/712 has survived a couple of build.sh -j20's ....

This same ss20 has been able to build a kernel -j4 too, with an
older SMP kernel:
NetBSD 1.6L (HORN) #1: Tue Jan  7 21:46:16 CET 2003
    bouyer@pop:/local/pop1/bouyer/current/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/HORN

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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