Re: 2.6.1 oops in prune_dcache()

From: Adam Kropelin
Date: Thu Jan 22 2004 - 19:33:50 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adam Kropelin <akropel1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> At 4 AM this morning (during cron run, I suppose) a box running 2.6.1
>> hit the oops below. It locked solid, had to hit the reset button to
>> reboot it. The machine had been running 2.6.1 for about a week prior
>> with no problems.

<snip>

>> Jan 21 04:06:32 print kernel: eax: 00008000 ebx: c1dc83e0 ecx:
>> c577da74 edx: c577da74
>
> Bit 15 of %eax got flipped. The kernel indexed off it and oopsed.
>
> This is most likely a hardware failure.

Yikes...I should have noticed that bit. You're certainly right. Guess I'm in
the market for some RAM. Sorry for the noise.

--Adam

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