Re: Ultrasparc III+ kernel panic

[Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, BERTRAND Joël wrote:

> 	I have seen. And I have seen another panic :
> 
> panic: cpu1: ipi_send: couldn't send ipi to UPAID 0 (tried 10000 times)
> cpu1: Begin traceback...
> cpu1: End traceback...
> Frame pointer is at 0x2004e41
> Call traceback:
>  netbsd:cpu_reboot+0x208(182f828, 1, ffff, 77bb78, 1cce380, 1c97000) fp =
> 2004f01
>  netbsd:vpanic+0x178(104, 0, 1852638, 1cb6800, f, 1c70740) fp = 2004fb1
>  netbsd:panic+0x24(1852638, 20059a8, 1cdc800, 1cddaf8, 1cddc00, 104) fp =
> 2005061
>  netbsd:sparc64_send_ipi_sun4u+0x1ac(1852638, 1, 0, 2710, fffffffffffffffe, 0)
> fp = 2005121
>  netbsd:cpu_need_resched+0x54(f4240, 1018a80, 0, 0, 70, 0) fp = 20051d1
>  netbsd:sched_changepri+0x64(2014000, 2, 2014000, 101db1d08, 101db1040, 2a) fp
> = 2005281
>  netbsd:resetpriority+0x90(1043816c0, 2a, 0, 1, 101daec40, 101daedc0) fp =
> 2005331
>  netbsd:sched_pstats+0x118(1043816c0, 0, 1c70868, 0, 10caf5510, 2a) fp =
> 20053e1
>  netbsd:uvm_scheduler+0x60(64, 1c71000, 0, 101daedc0, 10caf5510, 1043816c0) fp
> = 2005491
>  netbsd:main+0x83c(101d89f00, 1c70740, 1c70740, 101da2c80, 1c0a1fc, 18a0598)
> fp = 2005541
>  netbsd:cpu_initialize+0x154(184d500, 10624dd3, 1c97800, 0, 101daee00, 1) fp =
> 2005621
>  netbsd:100030+0(f0059840, 113800, 113c00, 111880, 111ce8, 1117f8) fp =
> fff33651
> 
> dumping to dev 25,1 offset 12291071
> 
> But I don't understand. With the same kernel, this Blade2000 rebooted one or
> more times _by day_ and now, uptime is greater than 8 days. I have saved
> kernel image and core if you want.

Well that's not terribly useful.

One CPU tried to tell another CPU something but the other CPU did not 
respond.  It then paniced.  In this circumstance the interesting info is 
the state of the unresponsive CPU.  An SIR would be much more useful in 
this circumstance than a panic.

Eduardo