Enda o''Connor - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer
2005-Nov-02 18:32 UTC
[dtrace-discuss] re an issue with streams and Dtrace
Hi Would someopne be able to look at bug for me: 6332949 "V240 panics with kmem_flags set, buffer corruption in streams/Dtrace while testing arbitrary patches" The panic occurs with kmem_flags set to 0xf on any SPARC FCS box. But only occurs when using out test harness ( a large set of ksh scripts ), unfortunately. basically we use ksh to rsh to a target machine and then do certain actions, ie add patches, remove patches etc, all remotely via rsh. but we consistently see panics when using kmem_flags and the stack seems to indiacte something related to Dtrace and streams Now I have not been able to reproduce outside of our test harness, ie tried to cut down the test harness but the panic never reproduces, ( some timing issue maybe ) seems to indicate some threading issue where a buffer is being written after being freed Any help appreciated, core dump location is in the comment section of the bug. Currently this reproduces on every sparc box we use and is somewhat hindering our testing. We use Dtrace to try and hit as many probes as possible on the running processes on the system etc, but it seems to panic the system fairly consistently, maybe not every patch but certainly every couple, and is not related to patches being tested ( most are just user land stuff, like patchadd etc ) thanks regards Enda