[Simh] Simvh 3.7.3 vax emulator crash

Nigel Horne njh at bandsman.co.uk
Mon Sep 3 18:28:19 EDT 2007


I've just upgraded from 3.7 to 3.7.3, mostly without trouble. My set up is

Host: Linux/x86 Fedora 7
Guest: Vax NetBSD3.1

Running perl in the guest gave me this. Now I suppose this could be a bug
in NetBSD, but I have never seen it before my upgrade to Simh 3.7.3
panic: Segv in kernel mode: pc 801767e4 addr 870d4f98
Stopped in pid 618.1 (nslookup) at      netbsd:trap+0x231:      movl    
$2, -52(
fp)
db> bt
panic: Segv in kernel mode: pc %x addr %x
Stack traceback :
0x87004b50: trap+0x231(0x87004c1c)
0x87004c1c: trap type=0x8c code=0x870d4f98 pc=0x801767e4 psl=0xdf0008
0x87004be8: cpu_setfunc+0x1e(0x83ee1b24,0x800e519e,0x81175000)
0x87004c68: sa_switch+0xed(0x83ee1aa8,0x81175000,0x2)
0x87004cac: ltsleep+0x184(0x81feaeac,0x11,0x8019de00,0,0x81feaeb4)
0x87004cec: biowait+0x29(0x81feaeac)
0x87004d30: uvm_swap_io+0x15c(0x87004db8,0x2,0x1,0x100000)
0x87004d5c: uvm_swap_get+0x3d(0x803a9f08,0x2,0x2)
0x87004d9c: 
uao_get+0x1d0(0x83eb5000,0,0,0x87004e58,0x87004e5c,0,0x1,0x1,0x2)
0x87004dd8: uvm_fault+0x956(0x83ee2d20,0x7f7ff000,0,0x1)
0x87004efc: trap+0x1f3(0x87004fb4)
db>


Keep up the good work, and I hope the report helps you to improve the 
excellent product.

-Nigel





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