Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271089AbTHCJk5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 05:40:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271104AbTHCJk5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 05:40:57 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:4832 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271089AbTHCJkz (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 05:40:55 -0400 X-Sender-Authentification: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 11:40:52 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Willy Tarreau Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, andrea@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre lockups (decoded oops for pre8) Message-Id: <20030803114052.731fae3e.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030803072525.GB679@alpha.home.local> References: <20030725174517.5b21116d.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030802142734.5df93471.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030803072525.GB679@alpha.home.local> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1299 Lines: 39 On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 09:25:25 +0200 Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Stephan, > > This is in remove_page_from_hash_queue() at filemap.c:114 : > *pprev = next; > > pprev is taken from page->pprev_hash and is considered invalid here > (4129b0fc). Assuming it has been corrupted earlier, it seems that the only > files able to touch this either directly or indirectly are : > - mm/filemap.c (add_page_to_hash_queue, add_to_page_cache*) > - mm/shmem.c (add_to_page_cache_unique) > - mm/swap_state.c (idem) > - fs/ext3/inode.c and fs/buffer.c (find_or_create_page) Ext3 is unlikely to be related, the box never saw ext3. Ext2 is only used on /boot (so very unlikely, too), everything else is reiserfs. > > So the problem may be narrowed down to a few files. Perhaps digging through > the VM changes since before you had a problem will give you more clues... > > Cheers, > Willy Thanks for commenting, the problem really is annoying because I _know_ the box will freeze, only it takes time, this time 4 days... Regards, Stephan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/