Re: port-sparc64/54810: sparc64 pool_redzone_check errors during install

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

The following reply was made to PR port-sparc64/54810; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-sparc64/54810: sparc64 pool_redzone_check errors during install
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 07:48:33 -0000 (UTC)

 gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas Gustafsson) writes:
 
 > I tried adding a printf("ntfs_init\n") to ntfs_init(), and it was
 > called early in boot:
 > 
 > [   1.0000000] entropy: no seed from bootloader
 > [   1.0000000] ntfs_init
 > [   1.0000000] mainbus0 (root): OpenBiosTeam,OpenBIOS: hostid 80123456
 > 
 > I then tried commenting out all the other code in ntfs_init(), leaving
 > only the printf, but that changed nothing;
 
 Init happens when the the filesystem code is attached. This allocates
 and initializes a few data structures. Maybe there is an overflow.
 
 There might be mount attempts, but the code stops at the first
 filesystem that succeeds and ntfs is rather late in the list. See
 vfs.generic.fstypes.
 
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