Re: oops when using git gc --auto

From: Otavio Salvador
Date: Wed Feb 27 2008 - 17:53:07 EST


Otavio Salvador <otavio@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Wednesday 27 February 2008 00:22, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Today I got this oops, someone has an idea of what's going wrong?
>>>
>>> Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000020000000000 RIP:
>>> [<ffffffff802735c3>] find_get_pages+0x3c/0x69
>>
>> At this point, the most likely candidate is a memory corruption
>> error, probably hardware. Can you run memtest86 for a few hours
>> to get a bit more confidence in the hw (preferably overnight)?
>>
>> I did recently see another quite similar corruption in the
>> pagecache radix-tree, though. Coincidence maybe?
>
> I let it running at lunch time and all went OK. I've also let burnP6
> running later and nothing happened. Looks like hw is OK.
>
> I've just got another oops, with same kernel.
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff83006d922370 RIP:
> [<ffffffff8027a79b>] shrink_page_list+0x16f/0x570

In the end, it was a motherboard issue.

Thanks for the help!

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