Subject: Re: sun4m panics.
To: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/09/1996 14:14:50
On Thu, 09 May 1996 19:28:14 +0100 
 "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org> wrote:

 > I'm seeing lots of panics:
 > 
 > /var/log/messages:May  1 02:09:55 revelation savecore: reboot after panic:
 > alignment fault
 > /var/log/messages:May  2 02:14:05 revelation savecore: reboot after panic:
 > pv_unlink
 > /var/log/messages:May  3 02:09:09 revelation savecore: reboot after panic:
 > kernel fault
 > /var/log/messages:May  5 19:49:17 revelation savecore: reboot after panic:
 > kernel fault
 > /var/log/messages:May  7 02:08:24 revelation savecore: reboot after panic:
 > kernel fault
 > /var/log/messages:May  8 22:32:48 revelation savecore: reboot after panic:
 > kernel fault
 > /var/log/messages:May  8 22:36:21 revelation savecore: reboot after panic:
 > kernel fault

I was seeing these on a sun4c, too, when doing the if_softc stuff.  I 
think there's just a bug in there somewhere ... I suspect that the sparc 
is more picky about reading bad kernel addresses via kvm, for example.

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