On Sunday 15 March 2009 10:14:12 pm Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Mar-12 08:46:50 -0400, John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Thursday 12 March 2009 12:36:46 am Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> I'm trying to upgrade an 11 month old FreeBSD 7 image in a VMware > >> 4.5.2 guest to an up-to-date -stable and it panics as above. I've > >> added a printf to report the two counts and there's a difference of > >> one page. I don't have any problems with the old 7-stable image or > >> up-to-date 6-stable or -current using the same VMware version. > >> > >> A screendump for a verbose boot can be found at > >> http://imagebin.ca/img/wahNNw.gif > >> > >> Can I safely delete the assert? > > > >I don't think so, I would report it to Alan. The one earlier report of this > >didn't include the detail that it was only off by one page. > > This is a bit moot now since you've disabled the test but rolling back > to a kernel from 26th Feb (before the superpages MFC) doesn't have the > page count discrepancy.
Ok. I think the discrepancy is due to the memory being reserved for the reservation table not being accounted for in 'npages'. I'm just going to remove the assertion in 7 to match what is in 8. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
