Re: Uptime again?

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sat Jan 26 2002 - 16:40:34 EST


On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Hartmut Holz wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Hartmut Holz wrote:

> > Interesting. Could you test 2.4 -aa and 2.4 -rmap too if you
> > have the time ? ;)
> >
> > (you can get -rmap and -aa from http://surriel.com/patches and
> > kernel.org, respectively)
>
> rmap12a about 15 minutes. As far as I can remember, I tested 2.4.6,
> 2.4.14/15/16/17/18pre7, rmap11c
>
> It looks like memory corruption. lavrec stops or makes a segmentation
> fault (With a oops). After that every apps starts with a oops till the
> kernel is dead.

You're right. While the bug is detected in the VM, chances
are it's cause is somewhere else.

The fact that lavrec crashes the machine while Xawtv works
suggests a device driver may be corrupting memory somewhere.

> >>EIP; c013004a <rmqueue+1fa/240> <=====
> Trace; c01301df <__alloc_pages+5f/2c0>
> Trace; c0129f4a <generic_file_write+42a/720>
> Trace; c01365a6 <sys_write+96/d0>
> Trace; c0111c8f <smp_apic_timer_interrupt+ef/120>
> Trace; c0106f3b <system_call+33/38>

Rik

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