From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: While we are working the system freeze. Everything is blocked in console and in all connections. The only solution is switch off. After the restart an error appears in /var/log/messages: Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:656! Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: smbfs ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_t ables ppp_deflate zlib_deflate ppp_async ppp_generic slhc r128 agpgart parport_pc lp parport Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: CPU: 0 Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c013cfd5>] Not tainted Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: EIP is at rebalance_laundry_zone [kernel] 0x675 (2.4.20-19.9) Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: eax: 00000100 ebx: c1253014 ecx: c0310900 edx: c0310900 Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: esi: c1252fd4 edi: c1252fb8 ebp: 0000001a esp: c23a3f94 Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5, stackpage=c23a3000) Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: Stack: c0310c00 00000100 c0310b3c 00000025 00000001 c0310900 0000 01d0 0000006a Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: c013d3eb c0310900 00000040 00000000 c23a2000 00000000 c23a 2305 00000000 Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: c013d5a3 000001d0 00000002 000001d0 c013d520 00000000 0000 0000 c010742d Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: Call Trace: [<c013d3eb>] do_try_to_free_pages_kswapd [kernel] 0 x12b (0xc23a3fb4)) Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: [<c013d5a3>] kswapd [kernel] 0x83 (0xc23a3fd4)) Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: [<c013d520>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0 (0xc23a3fe4)) Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: [<c010742d>] kernel_thread_helper [kernel] 0x5 (0xc23a3ff0)) Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: Aug 18 15:00:33 atlas kernel: Code: 0f 0b 90 02 b0 18 26 c0 e9 ee f9 ff ff 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-19.9 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. no way to reproduce, somply sometimes happens (rarely) 2. 3. Additional info: I happened often formatting the file systems with ext3. Reformatting with ext2 it works better
kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:656! kernel: invalid operand: 0000 kernel: aic7xxx st scsi_mod parport_pc lp parport autofs natsemi microcode keybdev mousedev hid input ehci-hcd usb-ohci usbcore ext3 jbd raid1 kernel: CPU: 0 kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c013b9b8>] Not tainted kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 kernel: kernel: EIP is at rebalance_laundry_zone [kernel] 0x398 (2.4.20-8custom) kernel: eax: 01040188 ebx: 0000001a ecx: c03165c4 edx: c0316680 kernel: esi: c1a27a84 edi: c1a27a68 ebp: 0000003f esp: c36bdf94 kernel: ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5, stackpage=c36bd000) kernel: Stack: c013ba2c c0316680 c03168bc 00000000 0000001a c0316680 000001d0 0000003a kernel: c013bdbb c0316680 00000040 00000000 c36bc000 00000000 c36bc305 00000000 kernel: c013bf73 000001d0 00000002 000001d0 c013bef0 00000000 00000000 c010742d kernel: Call Trace: [<c013ba2c>] rebalance_dirty_zone [kernel] 0x5c (0xc36bdf94)) kernel: [<c013bdbb>] do_try_to_free_pages_kswapd [kernel] 0x12b (0xc36bdfb4)) kernel: [<c013bf73>] kswapd [kernel] 0x83 (0xc36bdfd4)) kernel: [<c013bef0>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0 (0xc36bdfe4)) kernel: [<c010742d>] kernel_thread_helper [kernel] 0x5 (0xc36bdff0)) kernel: kernel: kernel: Code: 0f 0b 90 02 61 61 26 c0 e9 cb fc ff ff 8d 74 26 00 8d bc 27
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