[osol-discuss] kernel threads

[max at bruningsystems.com]

Hi Frank,
I think you meant to send this to Ramana, not me...

max
Frank.Hofmann at Sun.COM wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, max at bruningsystems.com wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>>> My present code uses thread_create(). I am seeing kernel panics due 
>>> to an ASSERT fail in the sfmmu_tsbmiss_exception().
>
> Can you please post the part of the output of "::msgbuf" (from mdb on 
> your crashdump) following the "panic[cpu...] " line ?
>
> I do think you're running way down the wrong track there. You get a 
> trap because of an invalid pointer, that the trap handling mechanism 
> doesn't tell you that clearly but fails somewhere else is more than 
> likely just an artifact. The _real_ meat is elsewhere.
>
> when you do crashdump analysis, don't always focus only on the topmost 
> function in a stacktrace. There's more to it than that and the bug you 
> try to track down & fix isn't necessarily at the very place where 
> things fall over.
>
> Are you willing to share that crashdump with the community ?
>
> Thx,
> FrankH.
>