Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755343AbYKTQK0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:10:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752505AbYKTQKP (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:10:15 -0500 Received: from mailbackup.inode.at ([213.229.60.24]:38987 "EHLO mailbackup.inode.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750738AbYKTQKN (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:10:13 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 313 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:10:13 EST Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:00:23 +0100 From: Sascha Biberhofer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.6.27.5] kernel panic (unable to handle paging request) Message-ID: <20081120160023.GA1019@aeris> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3607 Lines: 94 --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When running 2.6.27.5 I'm experiencing kernel panics after some random amount of time. I'm not quite sure what triggers them, the first time it happened after 5 days uptime, the second time after 1 day, always doing the same random stuff. I've copied the Oops message from screen by hand=20 (at least the readable part of it): [] schedule+0x149/0x270 [] sys_send+0x37/0x40 [] sys_socketcall+0x1d8/0x2c0 [] copy_to_user+0x30/0x60 [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x25 Code: 24 10 89 d6 89 5c 24 08 89 6c 24 14 89 c7 8b 4c 24 18 9c 5b fa 8b 90 80 00 00 00 8b a8 90 00 00 00 85 d2 74 35 8b 80 8c 00 00 00 <8b> 04 82 89 87 80 00 00 00 53 9d 31 c0 c1 ee 0f 85 d2 0f 95 c0 EIP: [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x34/0xa0 SS:ESP 0068:d7013a00 ---[ end trace 629cc3bb84dd2447 ]--- Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ff9f9042 IP: [] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x45/0xf0 *pde=3D00000000 Oops: 0000 [#3] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G D (2.6.27.5 #0) EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010086 CPU: 0 EIP is at __kmalloc_track_caller+0x45/0xf0 EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000286 ECX: 0000000b EDX: ff9f9042 ESI: 00000020 EDI: c0498fde EBP: 00000800 ESP: c04a1ea0 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=3Dc04a0000 task=3Dc0470300 task.ti=3Dc04a0000) Stack: 00000282 df8849c0 c02fed79 df89f3c0 00000680 00000020 c0498aa8 c02fea05 00000000 8000061c df823360 df823360 0000003c c02fed79 ffffffff c027204e 00000000 df9520f8 8000061c df8849c0 df823360 0000003c c02731a3 d5c8df60 Call Trace: [] dev_alloc_skb+0x19/0x30 [] __alloc_skb+0x55/0x120 [] dev_alloc_skb+0x19/0x30 [] nv_alloc_rx+0x3e/0x170 [] nv_napi_poll+0x403/0x603 [] net_rx_action+0x5f/0xf0 [] __do_softirq+0x42/0x90 [] do_doftirq+0x27/0x30 [] irq_exit+0x45/0x60 [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x40/0x80 [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x28/0x30 [] finish_task_switch+0x21/0x70 [] schedule+0x149/0x270 [] tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0xd/0x150 [] cpu_idle+0x67/0x70 Code: 89 4c 24 08 77 70 e8 f2 ff ff 89 c7 83 ff 10 76 34 9c 5b fa 8b 97 80 00 00 00 8b af 90 00 00 00 85 d2 74 8b 87 8c 00 00 00 <8b> 04 82 89 87 80 00 00 00 53 9d 31 c0 cd ee 0f 85 d2 0f 95 c0 EIP: [] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x45/0xf0 SS:ESP 0068:c04a1ea0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt. It looks like many things are going wrong at once. I'm now back running 2.6.27.4 which is and has been runing fine.=20 The machine itself is an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with an ASUS A7N8X (having an nfroce2 chipset) with 512 MB RAM and some Geforce TI 4800 iirc.=20 Any help with this issue is really appreciated.=20 greetings Sascha Biberhofer --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkliZcACgkQUl9z1ZMnRN4s5gCfcCJXJOoyGPF+5xMAgtYq6MDp TYEAn12KUponJ5xAbpapb3z9TPyQDJII =th4C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s-- -- 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/