I'm getting oops whenever I pull a big file off of an ext3 filesystem on my large LV. The kernel this comes from happens to have lvm 1.0.2 and posix ACL for ext2/3 patched in, but I get the crash even on vanilla 2.4.17. kymoops 2.4.3 on i686 2.4.17-acl-lvm. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.17-acl-lvm/ (default) -m /boot/System.map (specified) Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 71bde87c c0126507 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0126507>] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010803 eax: a55f6a19 ebx: 4569a301 ecx: dc404000 edx: 00000000 esi: c17e7e50 edi: 00000246 ebp: 000000f0 esp: deedddd8 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process kjournald (pid: 7, stackpage=deedd000) Stack: 00000000 00000000 00001000 00000000 c012f293 c17e7e50 000000f0 c012f31d 00000000 c175ef80 00001000 00000301 00000a43 c0130783 c175ef80 00001000 00000000 00000003 df664140 c0130979 df664140 00000a43 00001000 00000301 Call Trace: [<c012f293>] [<c012f31d>] [<c0130783>] [<c0130979>] [<c012efa7>] [<c015de43>] [<c014b6cd>] [<c0110760>] [<c015d92b>] [<c015d800>] [<c01054e8>] Code: 8b 44 81 18 89 41 14 83 f8 ff 75 1d 8b 41 04 8b 11 89 42 04 >>EIP; c0126506 <kmem_cache_alloc+66/b0> <===== Trace; c012f292 <get_unused_buffer_head+32/80> Trace; c012f31c <create_buffers+1c/e0> Trace; c0130782 <grow_dev_page+62/a0> Trace; c0130978 <grow_buffers+b8/100> Trace; c012efa6 <getblk+26/40> Trace; c015de42 <journal_get_descriptor_buffer+32/50> Trace; c014b6cc <read_kcore+17c/480> Trace; c0110760 <schedule+2c0/2f0> Trace; c015d92a <kjournald+10a/1a0> Trace; c015d800 <commit_timeout+0/10> Trace; c01054e8 <kernel_thread+28/40> Code; c0126506 <kmem_cache_alloc+66/b0> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c0126506 <kmem_cache_alloc+66/b0> <===== 0: 8b 44 81 18 mov 0x18(%ecx,%eax,4),%eax <===== Code; c012650a <kmem_cache_alloc+6a/b0> 4: 89 41 14 mov %eax,0x14(%ecx) Code; c012650c <kmem_cache_alloc+6c/b0> 7: 83 f8 ff cmp $0xffffffff,%eax Code; c0126510 <kmem_cache_alloc+70/b0> a: 75 1d jne 29 <_EIP+0x29> c012652e <kmem_cache_alloc+8e/b0> Code; c0126512 <kmem_cache_alloc+72/b0> c: 8b 41 04 mov 0x4(%ecx),%eax Code; c0126514 <kmem_cache_alloc+74/b0> f: 8b 11 mov (%ecx),%edx Code; c0126516 <kmem_cache_alloc+76/b0> 11: 89 42 04 mov %eax,0x4(%edx) -- Josh Litherland (fauxpas@temp123.org)