Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144480
Kernel 1069: Kernel panic on boot - buffered_rmqueue, __alloc_pages
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:15:01 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041228 Firefox/1.0 Fedora/1.0-8 Description of problem: Oops: 0002 [ #1 ] DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules Linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<C014105F>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.10-1.1069_FC4) EIP is at buffered_rmqueue + 0x1ff/0x244 eax: 00000000 ebx: c13fd220 ecx: 00000400 edx: 00000007 .... Process Swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo = c03ab000 task=c034fc20) Stack: dfe91000 00000000 c13fd220 00000246 00080d0 .... Call Trace: [ <c01411e1>] __alloc_pages + 0xae/0x295 [ <c0141410>] get_zeroed_page + 0x24/0x30 [ ..... ] pidmap_init + 0xb/0x36 [ ..... ] start_kernel + 0x110/0x16c <0> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task Kernel 1063 works fine Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.10-1.1069_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Fedora Additional info:
I met just the same symptom. 1. ENVIRONMENT kernel: 2.6.10-1.1069_FC4, 2.6.10-1.1070_FC4 CPU : Pentium4 2.66GHz CHIPSET : intel 82865G MEMORY : 512MB HDD : ATA 40GB 2. SYMPTOM Just same as this symptom. A Oops is occured on boot time. But, kernel-2.6.10-1.1053_FC4 and kernel-2.6.10-bk8 are OK.
Cannot reproduce with kernel 1074.
leave this open until I figure out *why* this happens. It was fixed by dropping the addition of GFP_ZERO. This patch is likely to spawn a whole bunch of users using it to obtain zeroed memory, so long-term this isn't a solution. Upstream are looking at this issue as well as its not fedora-specific.
By the way while kernel 1074 does boot, it doesn't work well at all. Evolution starts the first time with it, and then locks up every time after. Furthermore the system froze within 10 mins of using it. Should I investigate further and file more bugzillas? Kernel 1063 works fine for me.
no, I know whats causing that too. That's an unrelated issue. (incompatability between CONFIG_PAGEALLOC and the periodic-slab-checker)
Kernel 1075 with the slab-checker fix did not correct the Evolution problem. However kernel 1076 boots, and fixes evolution too.
fixed upstream now, and in the rebased update kernels in rawhide.