On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 07:22 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Friday 14 September 2007 16:02, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 09:51 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > On Thursday 13 September 2007 19:20, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > > > I've just seen this in dmesg on a AMD K7 / kernel 2.6.22.6 machine > > > > (config attached). > > > > > > > > Any ideas / which further information needed ? > > > > > > Thanks for the report. Is it reproduceable? It seems like the > > > locks_free_lock call that's oopsing is coming from __posix_lock_file. > > > The actual function looks fine, but the lock being freed could have > > > been corrupted if there was slab corruption, or a hardware corruption. > > > > > > You could: try running memtest86+ overnight. And try the following > > > patch and turn on slab debugging then try to reproduce the problem. > > > > OK so far I've run memtest86+ 1.40 from freedos for 8 hrs (v1.70 hung on > > startup) - nothing. > > Thanks. > > > Could this corruption be caused by a pci card/driver? I am asking as I > > am using a new dvb-t card (asus p7131) and the oops happened after 5 or > > 6 days of uptime just about a day after watching some movie (very bad > > reception/lots of errors). > > It could be caused by that, definitely. slab debugging plus my earlier > patch may help to narrow it down. (or stress testing with / without the > dvb card in action). OK, it is the dvb card. I have 1 week of uptime now without any errors. Only change is the dvb driver (saa7146) not loaded. :( Soeren - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
