Re: kernel 2.4.4: BUG in ll_rw_blk.c?

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Wed, May 09 2001, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
> 	I am running a 2.4.4 kernel compiled from the sources in the
> debian kernel-source package (it only includes a couple of small patches
> taken from pre and ac, as far as I can tell) and run in the following
> oopses, always while compiling the kernel itself. Here I included three
> different oopses, and the computer had been rebooted between them (for
> different reasons). Is this a known bug? Any fix available for it?
> The computer is a 500MHz PIII, with a 440BX chipset on the motherboard,
> more data available if required (just ask) running debian potato. The only
> "nonstandard" system component is a 2.1.3 libc6 compiled with the 2.4.4
> kernel headers, to be able to use large files. Here come the
> (decoded) oopses:
> 
> May  7 14:57:11 stampace kernel: elevator returned crap (-1072325408)
> May  7 14:57:11 stampace kernel: kernel BUG at ll_rw_blk.c:778!
> May  7 14:57:11 stampace kernel: invalid operand: 0000

If this happens, either your kernel or hardware is seriously screwed --
this is a _never happens_ case. So I suggest that you try a pristine
kernel, most likely this one has been mangled.

-- 
Jens Axboe