site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Our shop runs an automated "tinderbox" where a number of machines re-load our driver and run a series of QA tests each time a developer commits something to our source tree. In the last few days, some changes (probably changes in our driver) have caused our G5s to start crashing randomly. Since the crashes are random, they are hard to track down to a specific commit. The crash behaviour itself is very strange. The guy on site (machines are 3K miles from me) told me one crashed machine was scrolling in an infinate loop (he watched it for 10 minutes) printing register dumps. The latest panic.log I've gotten is very strange, with the stack trace on the panic'ed CPU always in what appears to be trap handling code. Here is the only panic log I've been able to get: Tue Dec 21 18:08:48 2004 Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 1): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x00000000000000D4 PC=0x0 00000000002CAE8 Latest crash info for cpu 1: Exception state (sv=0x1DD39000) PC=0x0002CAE8; MSR=0x00001030; DAR=0x000000D4; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0002 CAD8; R1=0x0CC33DB0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access) Backtrace: 0x0002CAD8 0x0002C8A8 0x0002C870 Proceeding back via exception chain: Exception state (sv=0x1DD39000) previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping... Exception state (sv=0x009D8500) PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x0000 0000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown) Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 7.4.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.7.obj~7/RELEASE_PPC panic(cpu 1): 0x300 - Data access Latest stack backtrace for cpu 1: Backtrace: 0x0008391C 0x00083E00 0x0001EDA4 0x00090E60 0x0009426C Proceeding back via exception chain: Exception state (sv=0x1DD39000) PC=0x0002CAE8; MSR=0x00001030; DAR=0x000000D4; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0002 CAD8; R1=0x0CC33DB0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access) Backtrace: 0x0002CAD8 0x0002C8A8 0x0002C870 Exception state (sv=0x009D8500) PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x0000 0000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown) Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 7.4.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.7.obj~7/RELEASE_PPC I have the feeling that this is more of a "collateral damage" sort of panic, and the real problem has corrupted some state badly enough that any information regarding the real panic or exception is lost. Am I correct? Any suggestions on how to debug this? I'm setting up kernel dumps now, but I don't have much hope that I'll get one. Thanks, Drew _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com