From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261274AbULEH3O (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 02:29:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261277AbULEH3O (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 02:29:14 -0500 Received: from picard.ine.co.th ([203.152.41.3]:52409 "EHLO picard.ine.co.th") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261274AbULEH3C (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Dec 2004 02:29:02 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.9, 64bit, 4GB memory => panics ... From: Rudolf Usselmann Reply-To: rudi@asics.ws To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: References: <1102072834.31282.1450.camel@cpu0> <20041203113704.GD2714@holomorphy.com> <1102225183.3779.15.camel@cpu0> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: ASICS.ws - Solutions for your ASICS & FPGA needs - Message-Id: <1102231736.3779.85.camel@cpu0> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 14:28:56 +0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hmm, ok my eat mem was useless. Could not get the system to crash ... Thank I was thinking and it occured to me that each time I was experiencing the crashes thgere was heavy file system activity. So I tried two things: tar cf /dev/null That went ok, than I did: tar cf archive.tar And that gave me: Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001170 RIP: {kmem_getpages+132} PML4 17102c067 PGD 171058067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [1] SMP CPU 1 Modules linked in: nvidia ipv6 autofs4 sunrpc binfmt_misc dm_mod button battery ac ohci_hcy Pid: 3454, comm: tar Tainted: P 2.6.9RU1.1 RIP: 0010:[] {kmem_getpages+132} RSP: 0018:000001017100da38 EFLAGS: 00010213 RAX: ffffffff7fffffff RBX: 000001017ffc9680 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 000001000000f500 RSI: 000001000000f580 RDI: 000001000000f840 RBP: 0000010037ffe000 R08: 000001016ac59000 R09: 000001017ffc96c8 R10: 0000000000001000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000001017ffc9680 R13: 000001017ffc96a8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000002a95572b00(0000) GS:ffffffff80512980(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000001170 CR3: 0000000037f08000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process tar (pid: 3454, threadinfo 000001017100c000, task 000001017fc5a7d0) Stack: 000001016b3ca088 0000000000001f7d 0000000000000001 ffffffff8015e720 000001017ffc9708 0000000000000001 0000005000000050 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000001000 Call Trace:{cache_alloc_refill+656} {kmem_cache_alloc+ {alloc_buffer_head+17} {create_buffers+39} {create_empty_buffers+20} {__block_prepare_writ {ext3_get_block+0} {block_prepare_write+26} {ext3_prepare_write+101} {generic_file_buffered {inode_update_time+158} {generic_file_aio_write {generic_file_aio_write+127} {ext3_file_write+3 {do_sync_write+173} {may_open+105} {autoremove_wake_function+0} {thread_return+41} {dnotify_parent+46} {vfs_write+228} {sys_write+83} {system_call+126} Code: 48 8b 91 70 11 00 00 76 07 b8 00 00 00 80 eb 0a 48 b8 00 00 RIP {kmem_getpages+132} RSP <000001017100da38> CR2: 0000000000001170 Killed [rudi@cpu10 /home]$ <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001170 RIP: {free_pages+154} PML4 179d73067 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [2] SMP CPU 1 Modules linked in: nvidia ipv6 autofs4 sunrpc binfmt_misc dm_mod button battery ac ohci_hcy Pid: 2078, comm: syslogd Tainted: P 2.6.9RU1.1 RIP: 0010:[] {free_pages+154} RSP: 0018:000001017cdf9dd0 EFLAGS: 00010213 RAX: ffffffff7fffffff RBX: 000001016ac5b010 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 000001007fc3b838 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 000001016ac5b000 RBP: 000001016ac5b010 R08: 000001000000f000 R09: 000001017fd01f48 R10: 000001017fd01f40 R11: ffffffff8031b400 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 0000002a957a3b00(0000) GS:ffffffff80512980(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000001170 CR3: 0000000037f08000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process syslogd (pid: 2078, threadinfo 000001017cdf8000, task 000001017e8757d0) Stack: ffffffff8018b543 000001017e8cac80 0000000000000002 0000000000000001 ffffffff8018ba43 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 Call Trace:{poll_freewait+67} {do_select+1027} {__pollwait+0} {__writeback_single_inode+728} {sys_select+885} {system_call+126} Code: 48 8b 91 70 11 00 00 76 0d b8 00 00 00 80 eb 10 66 66 90 66 RIP {free_pages+154} RSP <000001017cdf9dd0> CR2: 0000000000001170 -- rudi ============================================================= Rudolf Usselmann, ASICS World Services, http://www.asics.ws Your Partner for IP Cores, Design, Verification and Synthesis