Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Just an informational note about inducing a panic: I tend to, once at the db prompt, do bt then immediately call doadump. That induces memory being written to swap, then do reboot. OK, reproduced the panic (which was easy ;), and did it that way. Now, the stack

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 25.05.2011 13:36, Joerg Wunsch wrote: Well, the workaround is easy (just return -1 from gv_taste() when noticing the offset is not on a sector boundary - this can never be a valid gvinum device anyway), but I'm curious about why this panic now happens in RELENG_8 when it didn't before. I

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Are you sure that it is RELENG_8? Yes, I am. Or maybe you added options INVARIANTS to your kernel? I did (for other rasons, which you can read about in the freebsd-scsi list). Anyway, it appears to be a software bug. Ah, OK, it's quite possible the bug has

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 25.05.2011 15:15, Joerg Wunsch wrote: Or maybe you added options INVARIANTS to your kernel? I did (for other rasons, which you can read about in the freebsd-scsi list). Anyway, it appears to be a software bug. Ah, OK, it's quite possible the bug has always been there, even in

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Anyway, it appears to be a software bug. Ah, OK, it's quite possible the bug has always been there, even in RELENG_7 ... I just never tested that one against INVARIANTS. I committed the fix in the r83, can you test it? Спасибо, I'll test it tonight when

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread Willy Offermans
Hello Jeremy and FreeBSD friends, On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:16:42AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Willy Offermans wrote: Dear FreeBSD friends, I need support with a MultiTech modem, MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread Willy Offermans
Dear Daniel and FreeBSD friends, On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:48:03AM +0200, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 22/05/2011, at 9:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: However, as the boot process already mentions, there is no driver attached and I cannot get the modem to appear as an accessible and functional

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 25/05/2011, at 16:10, Willy Offermans wrote: According to the manufacturer (http://www.multitech.com/en_US/PRODUCTS/Families/MultiModemZPX/) it is not a soft modem, but a ``hardware'' modem. It says: Built-in processor does the work, so your computer doesn't have to. I do not know if this

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 25/05/2011, at 16:04, Willy Offermans wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2. I have enclosed the dmesg.boot file. puc was already incorporated into the kernel: kosmos# kldload -v puc kldload: can't load puc: File exists So I assume puc has already been loaded. You could try

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday, May 21, 2011 5:20:37 am Willy Offermans wrote: Dear FreeBSD friends, I need support with a MultiTech modem, MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV (http://www.multitech.com/en_US/PRODUCTS/Families/MultiModemZPX/) The modem is recognised during the boot event: snip pci6: simple comms, UART at

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Anyway, it appears to be a software bug. Ah, OK, it's quite possible the bug has always been there, even in RELENG_7 ... I just never tested that one against INVARIANTS. I committed the fix in the r83, can you test it? Works fine! -- cheers, Jorg

Re: [poll] hyperthreading_allowed, hlt_logical_cpus, mp_watchdog

2011-05-25 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Tue, 24 May 2011 16:21:08 +0300, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org a écrit : Hello, I am planning on some changes in head and would like to see if people use the following features: - machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable and sysctl If I remember well, these tunables were introduced because

Re: [poll] hyperthreading_allowed, hlt_logical_cpus, mp_watchdog

2011-05-25 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 24 May 2011 18:27:47 +0200, Josh Carroll josh.carr...@gmail.com wrote: Whatever you do, please leave at least some way (at least a tunable) to enable/disable HTT - some workloads are better with, and some without it, and some BIOSes are unreliable in enabling/disabling it :) I