From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755308AbXJIOMa (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:12:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752722AbXJIOMX (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:12:23 -0400 Received: from nn7.de ([85.214.94.156]:40922 "EHLO nn7.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752603AbXJIOMW (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:12:22 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.22.6: kernel BUG at fs/locks.c:171 From: Soeren Sonnenburg To: Tomasz Chmielewski Cc: LKML , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au In-Reply-To: <470B7D7E.5070901@wpkg.org> References: <470B7D7E.5070901@wpkg.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:12:12 +0000 Message-Id: <1191939132.4377.63.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:09 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > >> Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! > > > > Hmmhh, so now I rebooted and again tried to > > > > $ make > > > > the new kernel which again triggered this(?) BUG: > > I had a similar issue with 2.6.22.9, but as I had a proprietary nvidia > module loaded, I didn't report it. X was not enabled, though. > > At this moment, the machine was spawning quite a bit of bash / awk etc. > processes with large variables (50 MB or so), and used memory and CPU a lot. > > Normally, it's my desktop machine, and it's rarely on for more than ~12 > hours, but this time, I left it on for a couple of days. > > After this happened, these bash / awk processes died. After I restarted > the script again, I lost ssh access to the machine, and I saw no more I am afraid you are seeing some kind of hardware failure/bad driver behavior, just the symptom is the same. I am saying this as I have an uptime of 22 days with that very same machine now. And all I changed was unloading the asus p7131 dvb-t driver (saa71xx). Soeren