Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:11:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:11:37 -0500 Received: from cc361913-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com ([24.0.193.171]:29324 "EHLO mirai.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:11:24 -0500 Message-ID: <3BE8B460.A23E1A67@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 20:11:12 -0800 From: J Sloan Organization: J S Concepts X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Love CC: linux-kernel Subject: disaster with 2.4.14+preempt 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 HI all, I upgraded my test box (Compaq 6500, 4 CPUs, 1.2 GB RAM) to Red Hat 7.2, which went very nicely. It seems stable and tux is very very fast. I have been pleased with 2.4.14 on several desktop systems, so my next step was to build 2.4.14 on the Compaq - I decided to apply the 2.4.14-1-preempt-patch as well. I built/booted the new kernel, and started my usual dbench run to check it out - Ironically, I then witnessed a disastrous file corruption, the likes of which I'd never seen in years of using ext2 - in short, the old lockup that was previously fixed is back, nastier than ever - and this time it caused the box to scribble on /usr/lib before dying. A few seconds after starting "dbench 16", the server locked hard. (When it came back up, many programs were not functional, with claims of invalid or corrupt libraries) I was however able to hand copy the oops from the console and run through ksymoops after bringing the box backup again: Invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 2 EIP: 0010:[] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010082 eax: 00010086 ebx: ea416dap ecx: c0269f20 edx: 00000004 esi: c1a9e1c0 edi: f7bb3000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c2213eb8 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid:0, stackpage=c2213000) Stack: c0238c3e 0000004a 00000082 00000001 00000003 00000046 f628fbc0 ea416da0 00000082 f7bb3000 00000000 c0135ab6 c019ed8a c0423f00 00000000 00000001 00000000 f7b916dc c019edef ea416da0 00000000 00000012 00000000 00000040 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: 0f 0b 58 5a 8b 7e 08 85 ff 74 10 6a 4c 68 3e 8c 23 c0 e8 bb >>EIP; c01300ee <__free_pages_ok+1e/2e0> <===== Trace; c0135ab6 Trace; c019ed8a Trace; c019edef Trace; c0108a3e Trace; c0108ccb Trace; c0105240 Trace; c0105240 Trace; c0105240 Trace; c010526c Trace; c01052f2 Trace; c011611f Code; c01300ee <__free_pages_ok+1e/2e0> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c01300ee <__free_pages_ok+1e/2e0> <===== 0: 0f 0b ud2a <===== Code; c01300f0 <__free_pages_ok+20/2e0> 2: 58 pop %eax Code; c01300f1 <__free_pages_ok+21/2e0> 3: 5a pop %edx Code; c01300f2 <__free_pages_ok+22/2e0> 4: 8b 7e 08 mov 0x8(%esi),%edi Code; c01300f5 <__free_pages_ok+25/2e0> 7: 85 ff test %edi,%edi Code; c01300f7 <__free_pages_ok+27/2e0> 9: 74 10 je 1b <_EIP+0x1b> c0130109 <__free_pages_ok+39/2e0> Code; c01300f9 <__free_pages_ok+29/2e0> b: 6a 4c push $0x4c Code; c01300fb <__free_pages_ok+2b/2e0> d: 68 3e 8c 23 c0 push $0xc0238c3e Code; c0130100 <__free_pages_ok+30/2e0> 12: e8 bb 00 00 00 call d2 <_EIP+0xd2> c01301c0 <__free_pages_ok+f0/2e0> <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing - 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/