Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261647AbVBPTQ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:16:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261653AbVBPTQ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:16:26 -0500 Received: from dsl-crow-209-5-162-130-cgy.nucleus.com ([209.5.162.130]:62574 "EHLO ray.lehtiniemi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261647AbVBPTQW (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:16:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:16:19 -0700 From: Ray Lehtiniemi To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: oops report: bk-head, reiser, sklin98 Message-ID: <20050216191619.GB24244@mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3341 Lines: 89 hi all i found an oops on my screen this morning. in all likelihood, it's just a delayed crash due to some network experimentation i was doing yesterday, but it seemed severe enough to post to the list, just in case it's real. kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:2890! invalid operand: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: pktgen CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.11-rc3-rayl-smp) EIP is at try_to_free_buffers+0x8c/0xb0 eax: 20000000 ebx: c12719a0 ecx: ddf7a768 edx: 00000001 esi: 00000001 edi: 00000001 ebp: dea2fefc esp: dea2fe2c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process ntpd (pid: 1939, threadinfo=dea2e000 task=ddf46a60) Stack: f0000000 c12719a0 00000001 00000001 c019aa9c 00000060 00000001 fffffffb ddf7a6bc c019c1d1 000029e6 00000000 00000001 00000060 dea2fefc fffffffb 00000000 ded941b4 00000000 01d94180 00000086 fffffffb 00000000 b7e3e000 Call Trace: [] reiserfs_unprepare_pages+0x3c/0x70 [] reiserfs_file_write+0x621/0x630 [] d_alloc+0x12c/0x180 [] _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x2a/0x60 [] dput+0x18a/0x1c0 [] path_release+0xa/0x30 [] open_namei+0xc9/0x600 [] filp_open+0x27/0x50 [] vfs_write+0xa3/0x120 [] sys_write+0x41/0x70 [] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x75 Code: 58 04 e8 38 02 00 00 3b 1c 24 89 d8 75 f1 89 f2 8b 5c 24 04 89 d0 8b 74 24 08 8b 7c 24 0c 83 c4 10 c3 89 d8 e8 a6 3a fe ff eb bb <0f> 0b 4a 0b 56 40 37 c0 eb 84 89 e2 89 d8 e8 c1 fe ff ff 89 c6 upon typing 'reboot', i was rewarded with a stream of: linux:~ # reboot ide: failed opcode was: unknown hda: drive not ready for command ide0: reset: success hda: status error: status=0x10 { SeekComplete } ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 3076147 hda: drive not ready for command hda: status error: status=0x10 { SeekComplete } the box is currently having problems rebooting.... i'm just looking into whether the drive got corrupted, or whether this new chassis has stability issues, since i've only had it running for a week or so. this is on a nexcom nsa1086 chassis with a single P4 hyperthreaded processor. i'm running bk-head from yesterday, together with an updated sklin98 patch which i received from my vendor, nexcom.com. it is version 8.12 beta 01, dated dec 08, 2004. the install.sh script produced a patch which seemed to apply cleanly to bk-head. it seems very likely this oops is caused by this driver... yesterday, i noticed that four of the gig ethernet ports managed by this driver were producing an infinite stream of interrupts (several hundred thousand per second, according to /proc/interrupts...). also, the pktgen.ko module produced some BUG()-type warnings on several occasions, which unfortunately i didn't record. please cc me if it warrants a reply. thanks -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ray L - 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/