kernel bug

[Steve Felt <steve@circlepix.com>]

I'm getting the following "kernel BUG" on SuSE 9.1 Pro (and on 9.2):

[first, the hw/sw details]
  LSI 929x (7202xp)
  Large array of drives (1.4TB)

  cat /proc/meminfo
	MemTotal:      1036148 kB

  cat /proc/cpuinfo
	processor       : 0
	vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
	cpu family      : 6
	model           : 6
	model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+

  cat /proc/mpt/version
	mptlinux-3.01.14.23
	Fusion MPT base driver
	Fusion MPT SCSI host driver

  cat /etc/SuSE-release
	SuSE Linux 9.1 (i586)
	VERSION = 9.1

  dmesg | grep -i reiser | grep sda
	ReiserFS: sda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard 	journal
	ReiserFS: sda1: using ordered data mode
	ReiserFS: sda1: journal params: device sda1, size 8192, 	journal first
block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max 	commit age 30, max
trans age 30
	ReiserFS: sda1: checking transaction log (sda1)
	reiserfs: disabling flush barriers on sda1
	ReiserFS: sda1: Using r5 hash to sort names

Symptoms:
   I can do an initial rsync of a large amount of data (~300MB) from
another host, but subsequent rsync attempts fail after about 1hour (when
files are actually being copied over/ replaced etc.) with the following:

 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel: kernel BUG at fs/reiserfs/namei.c:1291!
 kernel: invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
 kernel: CPU: 0
 kernel: EIP: 0060:[__crc_device_suspend+2680266/3186568] Not tainted
 kernel: EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted
 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010296 (2.6.5-7.111.19-default)
 kernel: EIP is at reiserfs_rename+0x299/0x7d0 [reiserfs]
 kernel: eax: ffffffff ebx: 00008000 ecx: e88a7cf0 edx: e88a7cf0
 kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: e88a7ca0 ebp: e4aa5dcc esp: e88a7be8
 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
 kernel: Process rsync (pid: 3062, threadinfo=e88a6000 task=f13de220)
 kernel: Stack: 00000009 00000009 00000001 00008180 f5b49018 00001000
00000000 00000000
 kernel: 00000000 f5b4bb4c e4a84080 f5b4bb4c 00000000 00000000 c1a0e400
00000001
 kernel: 00000000 0000003b 00002b5b 00000000 00000000 e88a7c3c e88a7c3c
e88a7d50
 kernel: Call Trace:
 kernel: [__crc_device_suspend+2716835/3186568]
reiserfs_allocate_blocks_for_region+0xf32/0x1320 [reiserfs]
 kernel: [] reiserfs_allocate_blocks_for_region+0xf32/0x1320 [reiserfs]
 kernel: [__crc_device_suspend+2692640/3186568] inode2sd+0x12f/0x140
[reiserfs]
 kernel: [] inode2sd+0x12f/0x140 [reiserfs]
 kernel: [__crc_device_suspend+2772063/3186568] pathrelse+0x1e/0x30
[reiserfs]
 kernel: [] pathrelse+0x1e/0x30 [reiserfs]
 kernel: [autoremove_wake_function+0/48]
autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
 kernel: [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
 kernel: [__crc_device_suspend+2807928/3186568]
do_journal_end+0x1f7/0xc40 [reiserfs]
 kernel: [] do_journal_end+0x1f7/0xc40 [reiserfs]
 kernel: [__crc_device_suspend+2812134/3186568] journal_end+0x65/0xc0
[reiserfs]
 kernel: [] journal_end+0x65/0xc0 [reiserfs]
 kernel: [__crc_device_suspend+2719325/3186568]
reiserfs_file_write+0x5cc/0x639 [reiserfs]
 kernel: [] reiserfs_file_write+0x5cc/0x639 [reiserfs]
 kernel: [vfs_rename_other+149/272] vfs_rename_other+0x95/0x110
 kernel: [] vfs_rename_other+0x95/0x110
 kernel: [vfs_rename+335/896] vfs_rename+0x14f/0x380
 kernel: [] vfs_rename+0x14f/0x380
 kernel: [sys_rename+575/704] sys_rename+0x23f/0x2c0
 kernel: [] sys_rename+0x23f/0x2c0
 kernel: [__pollwait+0/208] __pollwait+0x0/0xd0
 kernel: [] __pollwait+0x0/0xd0
 kernel: [sys_close+112/208] sys_close+0x70/0xd0
 kernel: [] sys_close+0x70/0xd0
 kernel: [sysenter_past_esp+82/121] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x79
 kernel: [] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x79
 kernel:
 kernel: Code: 0f 0b 0b 05 35 d0 10 f9 8b 84 24 58 02 00 00 8b 8c c4 60
02


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I am open to any suggestions and I DO appreciate the hard work that's
gone into ReiserFS. I'm not above paying for the core developers' help,
if it comes to that (yes, I've read 
http://www.namesys.com/support.html
and
http://www.namesys.com/faq.html
). Also, I am open to suggestions, such as "you need to recompile the
kernel with..." or "why don't you read..." or "the hardware has to be
replaced..."

Thanks for reading!
("Blagodaryu za vnimanie!")

-steve