Re: System freeze on 2.4.18 / 19 SMP

Holger Grosenick (h.grosenick@t-online.de)
Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:54:56 +0200


> I don't think ALSA is likely to be the cause however. Does it behave
> stably running a non SMP kernel ?

yes alsa is running too - i'll deactivate it next time.

It just tried to run the installer on a PII 400MHz with SuSE kernel 2.4.18-4GB
and only 128MB of physical RAM / 380 MB swap (short test, i will recompile
the 2.4.19 later):

- the installer itself (java-app) crashed with segmentation fault
- afterwards the system is unstable, starting the installer again leads to
kernel messages as follows and even "umount" gets a segmentation fault.

Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000004
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: printing eip:
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: c0145ab6
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: *pde = 00000000
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: Oops: 0002
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: CPU: 0
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: EIP: 0010:[iput+302/464] Not tainted
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c6c407e0 ecx: 00000000
edx: c6c407e8
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: esi: c13a5c00 edi: c16250c0 ebp: 000001d0
esp: c7fe3f10
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5, stackpage=c7fe3000)
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: Stack: c7903da0 c6c407e0 000005aa c01436c6
c6c407e0 c7903db8 c7903da0 c01439d4
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: c7903da0 00000000 c114de40 0000001e
c0143c8b 00000689 c012c586 00000006
Aug 26 17:32:31 holger kernel: 000001d0 00000020 c02a9510 000001d0
c02a9510 c7fe2000 ffffffff 0000c40f
Aug 26 17:32:32 holger kernel: Call Trace: [dentry_iput+70/116]
[prune_dcache+148/280] [shrink_dcache_memory+27/52] [shrink_cache+606/816]
[shrink_caches+93/104]
Aug 26 17:32:32 holger kernel: [try_to_free_pages+92/240]
[kswapd_balance_pgdat+85/164] [kswapd_balance+22/44] [kswapd+155/196]
[kernel_thread+40/56]
Aug 26 17:32:32 holger kernel:
Aug 26 17:32:32 holger kernel: Code: 89 48 04 89 01 a1 64 a3 2a c0 89 50 04 89
43 08 c7 42 04 64

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

The time before, i started the installer, it failed the i tried to read an
"rpm" from a NFS share and got:

Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000028
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: printing eip:
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: c01453dc
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: *pde = 00000000
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: Oops: 0000
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: CPU: 0
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: EIP: 0010:[find_inode+32/76] Not tainted
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: EFLAGS: 00010203
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: eax: c25d1e80 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 0000000d
edx: c1607ec4
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c1607ec4 ebp: 000042e8
esp: c25d1e2c
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: Process rpm (pid: 1368, stackpage=c25d1000)
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: Stack: 00000000 c1212cc0 000042e8 c13a4c00
c0145860 c13a4c00 000042e8 c1212cc0
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: c1607ec4 c25d1e80 00000000 c25d1f04
c25d1ea0 c0803640 c1607f07 c13a4c00
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: 000042e8 c1607ec4 c25d1e80 00000000
00000001 000042df c1604228 c13a4c00
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: Call Trace: [iget4+64/272]
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_O/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.+-51
020092/96]
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_O/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.+-51020025/96]
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_O/lib/modules/2.
4.18-4GB/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.+-51020092/96]
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_O/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.+-51035608/96]
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: [real_lookup+83/196]
[link_path_walk+1270/1908] [path_walk+26/28] [__user_walk+53/80] [sys_st
at64+25/120] [system_call+51/64]
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel:
Aug 26 15:24:18 holger kernel: Code: 39 6e 28 75 ef 8b 44 24 14 39 86 9c 00 00
00 75 e3 85 ff 74

Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000028
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: printing eip:
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: c01453dc
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: *pde = 00000000
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: Oops: 0000
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: CPU: 0
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: EIP: 0010:[find_inode+32/76] Not tainted
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: EFLAGS: 00010203
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: eax: c25d1e80 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 0000000d
edx: c1607ec4
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c1607ec4 ebp: 000062e7
esp: c25d1e2c
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: Process rpm (pid: 1373, stackpage=c25d1000)
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: Stack: 00000000 c1212cc0 000062e7 c13a4c00
c0145860 c13a4c00 000062e7 c1212cc0
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: c1607ec4 c25d1e80 00000000 c25d1f04
c25d1ea0 c2c22320 c1607f07 c13a4c00
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: 000062e7 c1607ec4 c25d1e80 00000000
00000001 000062dd c1604228 c13a4c00
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: Call Trace: [iget4+64/272]
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_O/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.+-51
020092/96]
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_O/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.+-51020025/96]
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_O/lib/modules/2.
4.18-4GB/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.+-51020092/96]
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_O/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.+-51035608/96]
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel: [real_lookup+83/196]
[link_path_walk+1270/1908] [path_walk+26/28] [__user_walk+53/80] [sys_ls
tat64+25/112] [system_call+51/64]
Aug 26 15:25:13 holger kernel:
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000004
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: printing eip:
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: c0144751
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: *pde = 00000000
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: Oops: 0002
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: CPU: 0
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: EIP: 0010:[__mark_inode_dirty+93/120] Not
tainted
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: EFLAGS: 00010203
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c31137e0 ecx: 00000000
edx: c31137e8
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: esi: c13a4c00 edi: 00000001 ebp: c31137e0
esp: c5fa1f30
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: Process ldconfig (pid: 1379,
stackpage=c5fa1000)
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: Stack: c5fa0000 c3148ec0 c5fa1fa4 c0145cce
c31137e0 00000001 c013c410 c31137e0
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: c77c4000 00000000 c5fa1fa4 00000009
00000001 00000009 00000000 c77c4019
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: c3148ec0 c77c4009 00000010 7f180bac
c013c596 c013ca15 c5fa0000 c5fa1fa4
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: Call Trace: [update_atime+78/84]
[link_path_walk+1544/1908] [path_walk+26/28] [__user_walk+53/80
] [sys_stat64+25/120]
Aug 26 15:25:49 holger kernel: [sys_close+67/84] [system_call+51/64]

I hope that i don't destroy my installation with that ...

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