Re: Oops on disk write (kernel 2.6.16.y)

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Holger Eitzenberger napisał(a):
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently experiencing the same Kernel crash on several machines and
> Kernel version 2.6.16.43.  Attached are some dumps of one particular
> machine which crashed several times because of this.  Up until now I was
> unable to reproduce this behaviour in the testlab, also putting some I/O
> on the box helped not.
> 
> All of them happened on UP kernels, but this may be just a coincidence.
>>From the logs I see that at least in one case the machine didn't stop
> immediately but worked for few our from that point on until it hit the
> wall.
> 
> Looking at the traces I can say that all of them follow a codepath from
> the block I/O layer downward to ext3, e.g. here in page writeback path,
> see:
> 
> kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
> kernel: printing eip:
> kernel: c018e36a
> kernel: *pde = 00000000
> kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
> kernel: Modules linked in: nfnetlink_queue ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_ftp
> edd sg sd_mod sr_mod scsi_mod ide_cd cdrom ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_hashlimit
> xt_condition ipt_REDIRECT xt_limit xt_conntrack ipt_esp xt_tcpudp
> ipt_psd ipt_addrtype ip_nat_mms ip_nat_pptp ip_nat_irc iptable_nat
> ebtable_nat ebtables iptable_ips ip_conntrack_mms ip_conntrack_pptp
> ip_conntrack_irc ppp_deflate zlib_deflate bsd_comp sha1
> arc4 ppp_mppe ppp_async crc_ccitt ppp_generic slhc crypto_null blowfish
> cast5 serpent twofish ipsec af_packet ipt_logmark ipt_confirmed
> ipt_owner ipt_REJECT ipt_CONFIRMED evdev ehci_hcd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd
> parport_pc ppdev parport xt_state xt_NOTRACK iptable_raw iptable_filter
> ip_conntrack_netlink ip_nat ipt_LOG ip_conntrack ip_tables x_tables
> nfnetlink_log nfnetlink eepro100 mii e100 capability commoncap loop
> kernel: CPU:    0
> kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c018e36a>]    Not tainted VLI
> kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286   (2.6.16.43-46-default #1)
> kernel: EIP is at walk_page_buffers+0x1a/0x70
> kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000000
> kernel: esi: 00000000   edi: d5f3cb74   ebp: 00000000   esp: c34a5d6c
> kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
> kernel: Process pdflush (pid: 22753, threadinfo=c34a4000 task=cd7cb070)
> kernel: Stack: <0>d573c574 dbb7c720 00000000 dbb7c720 c1114540 dbb7c720
> d5f3cb74 dbb7c720
> kernel: c01919c3 00001000 00000000 c018e3c0 cb6e1710 00000246 c1114540
> 0000000a
> kernel: c01918c0 c34a5f48 c0176979 c1114540 c34a5f48 c34a5e28 00000000
> 0000000e
> kernel: Call Trace:
> kernel: [<c01919c3>] ext3_ordered_writepage+0x103/0x1f0
> kernel: [<c018e3c0>] bget_one+0x0/0x10
> kernel: [<c01918c0>] ext3_ordered_writepage+0x0/0x1f0
> kernel: [<c0176979>] mpage_writepages+0x1c9/0x3e0
> kernel: [<c01918c0>] ext3_ordered_writepage+0x0/0x1f0
> kernel: [<c013aa79>] do_writepages+0x49/0x50
> kernel: [<c017504c>] __writeback_single_inode+0x8c/0x3c0
> kernel: [<c02fbafc>] schedule_timeout+0x4c/0xc0
> kernel: [<c01755a8>] sync_sb_inodes+0x178/0x230
> kernel: [<c0175b1f>] writeback_inodes+0x6f/0x89
> kernel: [<c013ac59>] wb_kupdate+0xf9/0x170
> kernel: [<c013b5ee>] pdflush+0x8e/0x180
> ...
> 
> The disassembly of write_page_buffers() is at [1].  At least some of the
> other crashes happen in the sys_write() path, I have attached some of
> them ([2], [3] and [4]).
> 
> Looking at the LKML archive I can say that
> 
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/11
> 
> looks similar.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>   /holger
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://ftp.astaromail.com/people/heitzenberger/v7/kernel/6313/walk_page_buffers.s
> [2]
> http://ftp.astaromail.com/people/heitzenberger/v7/kernel/6313/kernel-2007-05-03.log.gz
> [3] http://ftp.astaromail.com/people/heitzenberger/v7/kernel/6313/kernel-2007-05-10.log.gz
> [4] http://ftp.astaromail.com/people/heitzenberger/v7/kernel/6313/kernel-2007-05-15.log.gz

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