Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754838AbXFXJos (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:44:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752643AbXFXJol (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:44:41 -0400 Received: from barikada.upol.cz ([158.194.242.200]:58230 "EHLO barikada.upol.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752411AbXFXJol (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:44:41 -0400 To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Jay L. T. Cornwall" , Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: (Last oops is Tainted: P) Re: 2.6.22-rc5: pdflush oops under heavy disk load In-Reply-To: <20070623102318.1b4f3d24.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <467B12CA.5060405@esuna.co.uk> <467BE118.4090308@redhat.com> <467BE4F1.7040308@esuna.co.uk> <467D0EB0.9030100@esuna.co.uk> <20070623102318.1b4f3d24.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:57:16 +0200 Message-Id: From: Oleg Verych Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1802 Lines: 45 * From: Andrew Morton * Newsgroups: linux.kernel * Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:23:18 -0700 > > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:14:40 +0100 "Jay L. T. Cornwall" > wrote: > >> I'm beginning to suspect the Attansic L1 Gigabit Etherner driver (marked >> as EXPERIMENTAL in 2.6.22-rc5). I can't reproduce these panics on >> disk-to-disk copies or SCP across the localhost interface. However, SCP >> from a server onto either of two different HDDs hits these oopses fairly >> quickly. > > That sounds like a good theory: you're getting easily-hit oopses in one of > the kernel's most-used codepaths which hasn't chanbged much in a long > time. So Something Odd Has Happened. Maybe this time it's just "Tainted: P"? |-*- <467D0EB0.9030100@esuna.co.uk> -*- ... i2c_algo_bit dib3000mc nvidia(P) dibx000_common snd_timer tveeprom atl1 compat_ioctl32 i2c_core videodev mii psmouse snd_seq_device v4l1_compat video_buf v4l2_common btcx_risc pcspkr shpchp snd soundcore snd_page_alloc intel_agp pci_hotplug serio_raw tsdev evdev sr_mod cdrom ext3 jbd mbcache sg sd_mod pata_jmicron usbhid hid ata_generic ata_piix ahci libata scsi_mod generic ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan [ 628.139866] Pid: 201, comm: kswapd0 Tainted: P ... |-*- And oops have no ext3, like prev. one. [ as you know we have no automatic noise tracking system, and ] [ developers were not so productive in last discussion of it ] Jay, check your oops against "Tainted: P" flag, which is not supported here, and not drop persons, who assisted you from the CC list. ____ - 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/