Reason for SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION,....

Hi,,

a friend of mine send me this:

http://www.pro-it-education.de/staff/keremg/misc/SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION.jpg

Unfortunately he could not find the dump anymore.
He said that this Exception raised on Windows 7 Beta1, 32 Bit,
running inside a VMWare Player.

I read the DDK Docs about that error, but its not really
helpfull. What could cause such a Exception? I have never
seen one like that before,...


Regards

Kerem

 

It's rare exception which is raised only a two cases as I see in Vista:

1. In KiSystemServiceHandler when the previous mode is UM, i.e.,
KeGetCurrentThread()->PreviousMode equal to UserMode

2. In KiRetireDpcHandler(...)

 

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms793232.aspx I get this
tidbit:

"This error has been linked to excessive paged pool usage and may
occur due to user-mode graphics drivers crossing over and passing bad
data to the kernel code."

I have had several cases of Bugcheck 3b when running volume and stress
test through my driver. If I rummage through my logs I may still find
the original crash dump files. These bugchecks disappeared when I
implemented a flow control component that keeps the volume from
overwhelming the machine resources.

I know this isn't much help, but I would try to slow the system down
to see if it improves the situation.


Alberto.

 

MSDN description:
"The SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION bug check has a value of 0x0000003B. This
indicates that an exception happened while executing a routine that
transitions from non-privileged code to privileged code."

is an imprecise interpration of my comment "1. In KiSystemServiceHandler
when the previous mode is UM, i.e.,
KeGetCurrentThread()->PreviousMode equal to UserMode"

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From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms793232.aspx I get this
tidbit:

"This error has been linked to excessive paged pool usage and may
occur due to user-mode graphics drivers crossing over and passing bad
data to the kernel code."

I have had several cases of Bugcheck 3b when running volume and stress
test through my driver. If I rummage through my logs I may still find
the original crash dump files. These bugchecks disappeared when I
implemented a flow control component that keeps the volume from
overwhelming the machine resources.

I know this isn't much help, but I would try to slow the system down
to see if it improves the situation.


Alberto.