Re: eros-0.8.1, teests/perf/lat_heap shapj@us.ibm.com
Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:37:03 -0500

This is *so* embarassing.

The kernel was fine. The bug was in the Check::Contexts() routine, which was leaving interrupts enabled while checking structures that could be altered by interrupt level code. The *real* pisser is that the damn disable/enable calls were there, and I had for some reason commented them out.

This test now runs to completion for me when checkpointing is occuring. I shall check in these changes as part of 0.8.2 Note that you will NOT get valid benchmark numbers on a machine that checkpoints while trying to run this benchmark!

Sorry about that.

shap

Bengt Kleberg <bengt@softwell.se> on 02/16/99 04:09:16 AM

To: eros-port@eros.cis.upenn.edu
cc: (bcc: Jonathan S Shapiro/Watson/IBM) Subject: eros-0.8.1, teests/perf/lat_heap

error looks like this (after cold-case tracing has gone well):

     Begin warm-case tracing
     !about to start migration()
     Prev of key 0x0020120 is not cur in keyring 0x002051f8
     Current thread 0x0019b674 (running) ctxt 0x0019b6bc (kernel)
rsrv=0x001971b4 ukt 0x8020120 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
     Stopped at 0x00105854 Debugger*void)+4 [db_interface.cxx:262]" movl

%ebp,%esp

Note that there are lots of successful tests: iocall

no errors.

iocall-indir

no errors.

nullcall-lsl

no errors.

nullcall-small

no errors.

nullio

no errors.

nullkey

no errors.

lat_fs

no errors.