On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 06:24:26PM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 05:59:23PM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> 
> > crash dumps aren't implemented on powerpc, alas.
> 
> Ah.  Is it a matter of code not being written or is there some
> architectural problem?

it's a SMOP (simple matter of programming).  just needs to be written.


> > > But the message I got was about a failed assertation (sdp != NULL) in
> > > uvm_swap.c line 1607 (current process was 'reaper').
> > 
> > ok, it's just freeing an address space.   a stack trace won't tell us much,
> > the corruption no doubt happened much earlier.
> 
> Well is there anything I can do to get more useful information?
> 
> With FreeBSD I ran with WITNESS and INVARIANTS, what options would provide
> similar functionality?

since you hit an assertion, I can tell you've already got DIAGNOSTIC on,
which is more or less the equivalent of INVARIANTS.  netbsd doesn't have
an equivalent of WITNESS yet, but that wouldn't help here anyway.

-Chuck