On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:15:16PM +0400, Alexey Tarasov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have a couple of Supermicro servers which got the similar kernel panic with 
> all FreeBSD versions I tried since 6.4.
> Now I want to investigate into the problem.
> The servers get into panic with similar workload: file server with a lot of 
> files and connections. Web server software is nginx. File system is 
> UFS+GJOURNAL. Outgoing traffic on each server is ~10 MB/s.
> I think it is not software problem, because when I've installed Linux with 
> such configuration there were no kernel panics.
> 
> Here is the short overview of the hardware:
> 
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2992.51-MHz K8-class CPU)
>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf65  Family = f  Model = 6  Stepping = 5
>  
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>  Features2=0xe59d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,EST,TM2,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR,PDCM>
>  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
>  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>  TSC: P-state invariant
> real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
> avail memory = 2054619136 (1959 MB)
> 
> DMESG: http://lexasoft.ru/m/dmesg.txt
> 
> CORE: http://lexasoft.ru/m/core.txt
> 
> Fatal trap 1: privileged instruction fault while in kernel mode
> cpuid = 1; apic id = 01
> instruction pointer     = 0x20:0xffffff8040d2cc83
> stack pointer           = 0x28:0xffffff8040d2ca80
> frame pointer           = 0x28:0xffffff0060c0b740
> code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                        = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1
> processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process         = 9388 (nginx)
> trap number             = 1
> panic: privileged instruction fault
> cpuid = 1
> Uptime: 17d15h48m49s
> Physical memory: 2032 MB
> Dumping 1485 MB: 1470 1454 1438 1422 1406 1390 1374 1358 1342 1326 1310 1294 
> 1278 1262 1246 1230 1214 1198 1182 1166 1150 1134 1118 1102 1086 1070 1054 
> 1038 1022 1006 990 974 958 942 926 910 894 878 862 846 830 814 798 782 766 
> 750 734 718 702 686 670 654 638 622 606 590 574 558 542 526 510 494 478 462 
> 446 430 414 398 382 366 350 334 318 302 286 270 254 238 222 206 190 174 158 
> 142 126 110 94 78 62 46 30 14
> 
> 
> (kgdb) #0  doadump () at pcpu.h:223
> #1  0xffffffff80590c59 in boot (howto=260)
>    at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:416
> #2  0xffffffff8059108c in panic (fmt=0xffffffff80951fc4 "%s")
>    at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:579
> #3  0xffffffff80878fd8 in trap_fatal (frame=0xffffff0060c0b740, eva=Variable 
> "eva" is not available.
> )
>    at /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c:857
> #4  0xffffffff808799ea in trap (frame=0xffffff8040d2c9d0)
>    at /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c:644
> #5  0xffffffff8085f983 in calltrap ()
>    at /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/exception.S:224
> #6  0xffffff8040d2cc83 in ?? ()
> #7  0xffffff8040d2cb50 in ?? ()
> #8  0xffffff8040d2caf0 in ?? ()
> #9  0xffffff8040d2cbf0 in ?? ()
> #10 0xffffff0060c0b740 in ?? ()
> #11 0xffffffff80b83c60 in sysent ()
> #12 0xffffff8040d2cc80 in ?? ()
> #13 0xffffff8040d2cae0 in ?? ()
> #14 0xffffffff8059c431 in bintime (bt=0xffffffff80ad3140)
>    at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_tc.c:200
> Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> (kgdb) 
The backtrace make absolutely no sense. I would not trust kgdb anyway.

Compile ddb in and do backtrace in console on the panic. Also, disassemble
the kernel at the fault address. I am very curious which instruction causes
this. This is stock GENERIC on the bare metal booted, right ?

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