Description of problem:
kernel seems to randomly crash when transmission is running.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
transmission-gtk 2.22 (12099)
kernel 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64
How reproducible:
If transmission is running non-stop, it usually takes about one or two days before the kernel crashes.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start transmission-gtk
2. wait a day or two
3.
Actual results:
Linux kernel crashes
Expected results:
No crash
Additional info:
Backtrace:
BUG: Bad page state in process transmission-gt pfn:117fe0
page:ffffea0003d3f900 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:ff00000000000000 index:0x31d9
page flags: 0x40000000000000()
Pid: 28974, comm: transmission-gt Tainted: P 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810dd905>] ? dump_page+0xbe/0xc3
[<ffffffff810dd9f9>] bad_page+0xef/0x104
[<ffffffff810de7e4>] get_page_from_freelist+0x3f6/0x64b
[<ffffffff810deb86>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x14d/0x77f
[<ffffffff8111a0cf>] ? fatal_signal_pending+0x12/0x29
[<ffffffff8111c7b6>] ? __mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x111/0x480
[<ffffffff8111de3c>] ? lookup_page_cgroup+0x32/0x48
[<ffffffff8111d003>] ? mem_cgroup_charge_common+0xa3/0xb5
[<ffffffff810ecabe>] ? zone_page_state_add+0x2f/0x34
[<ffffffff8110a321>] alloc_pages_vma+0xf5/0xfa
[<ffffffff810f3e4b>] handle_pte_fault+0x16f/0x7a5
[<ffffffff8147252e>] ? __slab_free+0x27/0xeb
[<ffffffff811ed56b>] ? selinux_inode_free_security+0x67/0x70
[<ffffffff810f13cf>] ? pmd_offset+0x19/0x3f
[<ffffffff810f47f8>] handle_mm_fault+0x1bb/0x1ce
[<ffffffff8147b9b0>] do_page_fault+0x358/0x37a
[<ffffffff81042cca>] ? set_next_entity+0x46/0x99
[<ffffffff8100885c>] ? __switch_to+0x20e/0x220
[<ffffffff81137698>] ? cpumask_next+0x1e/0x20
[<ffffffff81045d57>] ? finish_task_switch+0x89/0xb4
[<ffffffff81476dce>] ? schedule+0x653/0x66a
[<ffffffff81478c55>] page_fault+0x25/0x30
Closing bug because it was likely a hardware problem. I was getting paging errors once or twice a day. I ran a memory test, which showed errors. Changing the settings in the BIOS seems to elevated the problem. No crashes for over a week now.