Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 111659
prune_dcache oops with 2.4.20-20.9
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:04:08 EST
My main development machine (running RHL9) apparently oopsed tonight. Its normally stable, and it wasn't doing anything heavy, so I don't think this is hardware issues. Here is the oops: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 94329429 printing eip: d959bad8 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 via82cxxx_audio uart401 ac97_codec sound sd_mod nfs soundcore radeon agpgart it87 i2c-proc i2c-isa i2c-core parport_pc lp parport nfsd lockd sunrpc autofs via CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<d959bad8>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010286 EIP is at ___strtok_R29805c13 [] 0x191c53dc (2.4.20-20.9) eax: d959bad8 ebx: d959bad0 ecx: d959bad0 edx: d959bad0 esi: d959bac0 edi: d959bb68 ebp: 000004f0 esp: c34b3f74 ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process kswapd (pid: 5, stackpage=c34b3000) Stack: c015b9a3 d959bad0 d959b8c0 00000296 c3462a58 c3462a40 d959bad0 c0159133 d959bad0 c34629c0 c34b2000 00000000 000001d0 00000000 c01594b6 00000afe c013b10b 00000006 000001d0 c34b2000 c34b2000 00000000 c34b2305 00000000 Call Trace: [<c015b9a3>] iput [kernel] 0x273 (0xc34b3f74)) [<c0159133>] prune_dcache [kernel] 0xc3 (0xc34b3f90)) [<c01594b6>] shrink_dcache_memory [kernel] 0x26 (0xc34b3fac)) [<c013b10b>] do_try_to_free_pages_kswapd [kernel] 0x1b (0xc34b3fb4)) [<c013b3b3>] kswapd [kernel] 0x83 (0xc34b3fd4)) [<c013b330>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0 (0xc34b3fe4)) [<c010727d>] kernel_thread_helper [kernel] 0x5 (0xc34b3ff0)) Code: d8 ba 59 d9 d8 ba 59 d9 e0 ba 59 d9 e0 ba 59 d9 e0 90 1b 00
Try 2.4.20-27 or later. It fixes numerous stability problems in this area.
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