Re: kernel: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:389!

Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-30T11:01:49Z

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, IP v6 wrote:

> Hello all, I've googled about the error in the subject but can't find anything about it,
> I seem to be the only one having this?
>
> Since I couldn't find anything in Google I am mailing it to this list.
>
> I'm having this for the second time and needed to reboot the box and I don't know how to reproduce this.
>
> The kernel version is 2.4.24-pre2 with some netfilter pom patches and lufs patch
> and the CPU is a Cyrix 6x86L 150MHz
> I believe this was the reason why I decided to upgrade to 2.4.24-pre2 from 2.4.23 but I'm not sure anymore, I forgot...
> Anyway I'm compiling 2.4.23 again now, as this may not happen when I'm out partying for newyear ;)
>
> Here is a *small* portion of the messages in /var/log/messages
> (there is more but the mail would be too long to include them all :)).
> I hope someone can do anything with this and help me. Thanks.
>
>
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:389!
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: invalid operand: 0000
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: CPU: 0
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c012d240>] Tainted: P
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: eax: 000000c4 ebx: c10215e4 ecx: 00002dd9 edx: c1160000
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: esi: c10215c8 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000005 esp: c1161f30
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 4, stackpage=c1161000)
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: Stack: c1160000 00000bf2 00000a31 000001d0 c028c998 c2cf6fe0 c105a460 c012d632
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: c105a460 00000020 000001d0 c028c998 00000000 c012d6cf c1161f88 0000003c
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: 000001d0 00000020 c012d732 c1161f88 c1161f88 c028c998 00000000 c028c998
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: Call Trace: [<c012d632>] [<c012d6cf>] [<c012d732>] [<c012d8ec>] [<c012d956>]
> Dec 30 02:34:43 core1-fe0-gw1 kernel: [<c012da91>] [<c012d9f0>] [<c0105000>] [<c0107156>] [<c012d9f0>]

Hi,

This seems to be caused by the additional patches you are using.

Remove them and see if the machine is still unstable.