Re: page fault question

2000-11-20 Thread Mike Smith
It turns out that the network stack gets really unhappy when you trim an mbuf chain and leave the last mbuf with a negative length :-( Ouch. 8) Typically stack overruns lead to double faults (because there's no stack on which to handle the fault) and a spontaneous reboot. This just

Re: page fault question

2000-11-19 Thread Richard Hodges
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: I have been having a great time :-) debugging a device driver, and have run into a really fun way to panic. With one type of traffic, [something] happens and the kernel drops into DDB, just the way I want. [snip panic info] This is pretty

Re: page fault question

2000-11-15 Thread Mike Smith
I have been having a great time :-) debugging a device driver, and have run into a really fun way to panic. With one type of traffic, [something] happens and the kernel drops into DDB, just the way I want. 8) Well, actually DDB seems to get trapped in some kind of loop that spews

page fault question

2000-11-14 Thread Richard Hodges
I have been having a great time :-) debugging a device driver, and have run into a really fun way to panic. With one type of traffic, [something] happens and the kernel drops into DDB, just the way I want. Well, actually DDB seems to get trapped in some kind of loop that spews messages faster