Bug 214059

Summary: Kernel panic in kswapd
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Brian Marsden <brian.marsden>
Component: kernelAssignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Hardware: i686   
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Description Brian Marsden 2006-11-05 08:58:58 UTC
Description of problem:

Kernel panic in kswapd during high read I/O.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.21-47.ELsmp/i686


How reproducible:
Unknown


Steps to Reproduce:
Running a backup of the system using Yosemite Backup.
  
Actual results:
Kernel panic

Expected results:
No kernel panic


Additional info:
Kernel trace (from photo of console):

EFLAGS: 00010206

EIP is at clear_inode [kernel] 0xb9 (2.4.21-47.ELsmp/i686)
eax: 0101a8c0  ebx: e9a67500  ecx: 00000000  edx: c54b4000
esi: e9a67500  edi: c54b5f7c  ebp: 00000000  esp: c54b5f4c
ds: 0068   es: 0068  ss: 0068
Process kswapd (pid: 11, stackpacge=c54b5000)S
Stack: e9a67500 e9a67508 c018191c e9a67500 c0150068 ffffffef c03b0604 000011ea
       e6bf1080 c0181bf8 c54b5f7c 00002470 e9a67708 d81d9308 c03abc00 00017f4a
       00000001 00000040 c0181e77 000011ea 00000000 c0181f04 0000365a 00000001
Call Trace: [<c018191c>] dispose_list [kernel] 0x3c (0xc54b5f54)
[<c0150068>] do_mlock [kernel] 0x58 (0xc54b5fc)
[<c0181b48>] __prune_icache [kernel] 0x88 (0xc54b5f70)
[<c0181e77>] prune_icache [kernel] 0x17 (0xc54b5f94)
[<c0181f04>] shrink_icache_memory [kernel] 0x24 (0xc54b5fa0)
[<c0157b48>] do_try_to_free_pages_kswapd [kerne] 0x168 (0xc54b5fac)
[<c0157cf8>] kswapd [kernel] 0x68 (0xc54b5fd0)
[<c0157c90>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0 (0xc54b5fe4)
[<c01095cd>] kernel_thread_helper [kernel] 0x5 (0xc54b5ff0)

Code: 8b 50 3c 85 d2 75 5a 8b 8b 0c 01 00 00 85 c9 75 46 8b 83 10

Kernel panic: Fatal exception

Comment 1 Brian Marsden 2006-11-05 08:58:59 UTC
Created attachment 140381 [details]
Kernel trace after panic

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 18:40:10 UTC
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission
critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since
this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed.
 
For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit:
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If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your
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information on how this bug is affecting you.