Posible Bug at page_alloc.c in the [2.4.0-test11] kernel

From: Stefan Pfetzing (dreamind@dreamind.yi.org)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 19:04:05 EST


Hello,

I think i possibly foun a Bug in the Linux Kernel 2.4.0-test11.
I patched the kernel with the bttv driver 7.49 but nothing else.
My system was up for 5 1/2 days and than it crashed.

I have a Pentium 200MMX (overclocked to 225 but I REALLY don't think that's
the problem, because it worked fine with other Kernels.), a Asus TX97 Board,
64MB Ram, an Nvidia Riva 128 graphics card, a Hauppauge TV Card, a AVM Isdn Card,
a Symbios Logic SCSI Card and of course a D-Link network card (tulip based).
I also have several Usb devices attached (Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse)

At the moment when the kernel crashed, I was online (via ISDN) and I just closed
xawv (tv viewing program) and started playing a mp3 via mp3blaster.
(hope this information isn't too accurate)

/var/log/messages:
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Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:84!
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: invalid operand: 0000
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: CPU: 0
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: EIP: 0010:[__free_pages_ok+73/892]
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: eax: 0000001f ebx: c1013210 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: esi: c1013238 edi: 00000000 ebp: 0000001e esp: c1165f64
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 3, stackpage=c1165000)
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: Stack: c01df9a5 c01dfb73 00000054 c1013210 c1013238 00000091 0000001e 00000091
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: 0000001d 00000000 00000003 c0128882 c012a127 c0128a69 00000000 00000004
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000004 00000000 00000000 c01290d0 00000004
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: Call Trace: [tvecs+7389/60504] [tvecs+7851/60504] [page_launder+670/1900] [__free_pa
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: [kswapd+115/316] [kernel_thread+40/56]
Dec 4 23:50:57 server kernel: Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 89 f6 89 da 2b 15 b8 fd 26 c0 89 d0 c1 e0 04
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:533!
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: invalid operand: 0000
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: CPU: 0
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: EIP: 0010:[reclaim_page+901/988]
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: eax: 0000001c ebx: c101322c ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000010
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: esi: c1013210 edi: c06ab5bc ebp: 00000000 esp: c3491e10
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: esi: c1013210 edi: c06ab5bc ebp: 00000000 esp: c3491e10
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: Process xglobe (pid: 14216, stackpage=c3491000)
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: Stack: c01df405 c01df5c4 00000215 c020e6e0 c020e974 00000000 00000000 c0129dc8
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: c020e6e0 00000000 c020e978 00000000 00000001 c0129f83 c020e96c 00000000
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: 00000000 00000001 00000000 c1024188 000000a3 c1a79bbc 00000005 00000001
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: Call Trace: [tvecs+5949/60504] [tvecs+6396/60504] [__alloc_pages_limit+124/172] [__a
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: [handle_mm_fault+232/340] [do_page_fault+311/1004] [do_page_fault+0/1004] [do
Dec 4 23:51:23 server kernel: Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 31 c0 0f b3 46 18 8d 5e 28 8d 46 2c 39 46 2c
Dec 4 23:55:00 server /USR/SBIN/CRON[14222]: (root) CMD ( ping www.heise.de -c1 >/dev/null )
Dec 4 23:55:43 server kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 100
---snipp---

If i forgot anything (kernel config or anything else please mail me.

And please also mail to my address in replys because I am NOT suscribed to the mailing list.

thanx

dreamind

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