Re: Instability issues with NetBSD-9, xen-4.11 and the xbdb backend driver

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 01:59:44PM -0800, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 	hello.  I think I'm making progress.  The problem seems to be an error
> with the shared memory mapping on the back end with dom0.  With backend
> debugging turned on, I see the errors below.  
> 
> It looks like xen_shm_map() is supposed to return ENOMEM  if it can't
> allocate a segment of memory in the moment, but instead, it's returning -1,
> which triggers the messages I'm seeing.  At this point, I'm not sure where
> the -1 is coming from.  If I'm reading the xen_shm_map function correctly,
> if it gets an error it doesn't map to ENOMEM, it's supposed to panic.  yet,
> it's not panicing.
> 	Since I'm using modules to load zfs, it's not a trivial test to switch
> kernels to -current.

zfs is hightly suspect then. Maybe it's corrupting memory ...


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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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