> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 1000004b > printing eip: > c0195bd3 > *pde = 00000000 > Oops: 0000 [#1] > PREEMPT SMP > Modules linked in: vboxdrv binfmt_misc fuse coretemp hwmon gspca videodev v4l2_common v4l1_compat iwl3945 mac80211 tifm_7xx1 tifm_core joydev irda crc_ccitt 8250_pnp 8250 serial_core firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0060:[<c0195bd3>] Not tainted VLI > EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.23-rc6 #1) > EIP is at ext3_discard_reservation+0x18/0x4d > eax: dff23800 ebx: 10000033 ecx: dfc15ec0 edx: ffffffff > esi: c0007c44 edi: 10000033 ebp: dfc2bef4 esp: dfc2beac > ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068 > Process kswapd0 (pid: 261, ti=dfc2a000 task=dfcac570 task.ti=dfc2a000) > Stack: c0007ba4 c0007c44 10000033 c019ec51 c0007c44 c0007d8c 0000002c c0171b1b > 0000002c c0007c44 c0007c4c c0171da2 c050880c 00000000 00000080 00000080 > c0171fb8 00000080 c0007e48 df9e3910 00007404 c03f5634 00000080 000000d0 > Call Trace: > [<c019ec51>] ext3_clear_inode+0x5d/0x76 > [<c0171b1b>] clear_inode+0x6b/0xb9 > [<c0171da2>] dispose_list+0x48/0xc9 > [<c0171fb8>] shrink_icache_memory+0x195/0x1bd > [<c014f5ec>] shrink_slab+0xe2/0x159 > [<c014f9a0>] kswapd+0x2d3/0x431 > [<c0132520>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x33 > [<c014f6cd>] kswapd+0x0/0x431 > [<c0132453>] kthread+0x38/0x5d > [<c013241b>] kthread+0x0/0x5d > [<c0104b73>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > ======================= > Code: 83 f8 01 19 c0 f7 d0 83 e0 08 89 42 0c 89 56 b4 5b 5e c3 57 56 89 c6 53 8b 58 b4 8b 80 a4 00 00 00 85 db 8b 80 78 01 00 00 74 30 <83> 7b 18 00 74 2a 8d b8 00 03 00 00 89 f8 e8 b8 ca 1a 00 83 7b > EIP: [<c0195bd3>] ext3_discard_reservation+0x18/0x4d SS:ESP 0068:dfc2beac > > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 17:00 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fr, 28 Sep 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > objdump -DlS balloc.o > > Here it is > Thanks Looks like kernel oops at 1753(173b+0x18): 0000173b <ext3_discard_reservation>: ext3_discard_reservation(): 173b: 57 push %edi 173c: 56 push %esi 173d: 89 c6 mov %eax,%esi 173f: 53 push %ebx 1740: 8b 58 b4 mov -0x4c(%eax),%ebx 1743: 8b 80 a4 00 00 00 mov 0xa4(%eax),%eax 1749: 85 db test %ebx,%ebx 174b: 8b 80 78 01 00 00 mov 0x178(%eax),%eax 1751: 74 30 je 1783 <ext3_discard_reservation+0x48> 1753: 83 7b 18 00 cmpl $0x0,0x18(%ebx) ==========================> Kernel oops here, ebx=10000033, match bad page location 1000004b(=10000033+0x18) 1757: 74 2a je 1783 <ext3_discard_reservation+0x48> 1759: 8d b8 00 03 00 00 lea 0x300(%eax),%edi 175f: 89 f8 mov %edi,%eax 1761: e8 fc ff ff ff call 1762 <ext3_discard_reservation+0x27> 1766: 83 7b 18 00 cmpl $0x0,0x18(%ebx) 176a: 74 0d je 1779 <ext3_discard_reservation+0x3e> 176c: 8b 86 a4 00 00 00 mov 0xa4(%esi),%eax 1772: 89 da mov %ebx,%edx 1774: e8 dc eb ff ff call 355 <rsv_window_remove> 1779: 89 f8 mov %edi,%eax 177b: 5b pop %ebx 177c: 5e pop %esi 177d: 5f pop %edi 177e: e9 fc ff ff ff jmp 177f <ext3_discard_reservation+0x44> 1783: 5b pop %ebx 1784: 5e pop %esi 1785: 5f pop %edi 1786: c3 ret And trying to matching to the code: void ext3_discard_reservation(struct inode *inode) { struct ext3_inode_info *ei = EXT3_I(inode); struct ext3_block_alloc_info *block_i = ei->i_block_alloc_info; struct ext3_reserve_window_node *rsv; spinlock_t *rsv_lock = &EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_rsv_window_lock; if (!block_i) return; rsv = &block_i->rsv_window_node; if (!rsv_is_empty(&rsv->rsv_window)) { =================================> kernel oops here spin_lock(rsv_lock); if (!rsv_is_empty(&rsv->rsv_window)) rsv_window_remove(inode->i_sb, rsv); spin_unlock(rsv_lock); } } It seems ebx points to block_i(i_block_alloc_info), and that is bad memory location, so that leads to bad paging request when try to get the rsv_window structure. But it confused me why the rsv_window offset is 0x18 to i_block_alloc_info, it should be 0x14(20 bytes)...Are you running a vanilla 2.6.23-rc6? No clue how i_block_alloc_info pointing to a bad location for now. ext3_alloc_inode() clearly init this field to NULL, and ext3_clear_inode() clearly set this field to NULL. So during the lifecycle of the inode, i_block_alloc_info should point to a valid address or being NULL. And the stack trace indicating the oops happened when pushing the inode from the cache, so racing is not a issue there. Possible random memory corruption? Mingming Mingming - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html