Re: 2.2.17 Crash

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 13:35:40 EDT

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    On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Mike Elmore wrote:

    > All,
    >
    > Had a crash this morning for the first time in a while...
    > 2.2.17 Locked up Cold.
    >
    > Machine is a SMP 2xPII450 w/ 128M RAM on a Tyan Tiger100
    > BX board.
    >
    > Here's the kernel output:
    > ----------------------------------------
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 40000020
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: *pde = 00000000
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: Oops: 0000
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: CPU: 1
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: EIP: 0010:[try_to_free_buffers+28/236]
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: eax: 00072420 ebx: c03a1890 ecx: 00000001 edx: 00010000
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: esi: 40000000 edi: 40000000 ebp: c03a1890 esp: c7f9df8c
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5, process nr: 6, stackpage=c7f9d000)
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: Stack: 00000001 00000030 ffffffff c01201d6 c03a1890 00000001 c7f9c000 0000000d
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: 00000006 00000001 00000001 c01254af 00000006 00000030 c7f9c000 c0201dfa
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: c7f9c2b9 00008000 c7f9c000 c7f9c000 c01255a7 00000030 00000f00 c7ff3fbc
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: Call Trace: [shrink_mmap+294/376] [do_try_to_free_pages+103/240] [tvecs+8634/13632] [kswapd+111/152] [get_options+0/116] [kernel_thread+35/48]
    > Oct 11 08:29:30 lingas kernel: Code: 83 7e 20 00 75 62 f6 46 18 46 75 5c 8b 76 14 39 fe 75 ed 89
    > Oct 11 08:29:57 lingas kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80000020
    > Oct 11 08:29:57 lingas kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 06a11000, %cr3 = 06a11000
    > Oct 11 08:29:57 lingas kernel: *pde = 00000000
    > Oct 11 08:29:57 lingas kernel: Oops: 0000
    > Oct 11 08:29:57 lingas kernel: CPU: 0
    > ----------------------------------------
    >
    > What are the possible causes of such a thing?

    Here is the code which causes the problem:

    int try_to_free_buffers(struct page * page_map, int wait)
    {
            struct buffer_head * tmp, * bh = page_map->buffers;
            int too_many;

            tmp = bh;
            do {
                    if (buffer_busy(tmp))
                            goto busy;
                    tmp = tmp->b_this_page;
            } while (tmp != bh);

     succeed:

    ...

    The problem is that "page_map->buffers" is pointing to the address
    "40000000".

    Now I'm not sure if this can be caused by a memory problem.

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