While testing NLM I saw this once (reformatted a bit because logged over netconsole): BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 6b6b6b6f IP: [<c174ffa2>] rpcb_getport_done+0x32/0xc0 *pdpt = 000000003547c001 *pde = 0000000000000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Pid: 1512, comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 2.6.39.3-x260 #1 EIP: 0060:[<c174ffa2>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 0 EIP is at rpcb_getport_done+0x32/0xc0 EAX: 00009712 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c174ff70 EDX: f5434c40 ESI: 6b6b6b6b EDI: f5434c40 EBP: f5fa9ef8 ESP: f5fa9ed8 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 Process kworker/0:2 (pid: 1512, ti=f5fa8000 task=f65008a0 task.ti=f5fa8000) Call Trace: [<c1741ded>] ? call_decode+0x13d/0x200 [<c174835e>] rpc_exit_task+0x1e/0x50 [<c17488f8>] __rpc_execute+0x68/0x1b0 [<c1746694>] ? xs_udp_setup_socket+0x34/0x180 [<c1748a8b>] rpc_async_schedule+0xb/0x10 [<c1084400>] process_one_work+0x110/0x360 [<c1748a80>] ? rpc_execute+0x40/0x40 [<c1084977>] worker_thread+0x137/0x370 [<c1084840>] ? manage_workers+0x110/0x110 [<c1089d84>] kthread+0x74/0x80 [<c1089d10>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x30/0x30 [<c17871b6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd I think it's here: 00000000 <rpcb_getport_done>: 0: 55 push %ebp 1: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp 3: 83 ec 20 sub $0x20,%esp 6: 89 7d fc mov %edi,-0x4(%ebp) 9: 89 d7 mov %edx,%edi b: 89 5d f4 mov %ebx,-0xc(%ebp) e: 89 75 f8 mov %esi,-0x8(%ebp) 11: 8b 58 6c mov 0x6c(%eax),%ebx 14: 89 45 f0 mov %eax,-0x10(%ebp) 17: 8b 32 mov (%edx),%esi 19: 83 fb fb cmp $0xfffffffb,%ebx 1c: 74 62 je 80 <rpcb_getport_done+0x80> 1e: 83 fb a3 cmp $0xffffffa3,%ebx 21: 74 5d je 80 <rpcb_getport_done+0x80> 23: 85 db test %ebx,%ebx 25: 78 65 js 8c <rpcb_getport_done+0x8c> 27: 0f b7 52 10 movzwl 0x10(%edx),%edx 2b: 66 85 d2 test %dx,%dx 2e: 74 38 je 68 <rpcb_getport_done+0x68> =>30: 8b 4e 04 mov 0x4(%esi),%ecx 33: 0f b7 d2 movzwl %dx,%edx 36: 89 f0 mov %esi,%eax 38: ff 51 10 call *0x10(%ecx) 3b: f0 0f ba ae bc 02 00 lock btsl $0x4,0x2bc(%esi) static void rpcb_getport_done(struct rpc_task *child, void *data) { struct rpcbind_args *map = data; struct rpc_xprt *xprt = map->r_xprt; int status = child->tk_status; /* Garbage reply: retry with a lesser rpcbind version */ if (status == -EIO) status = -EPROTONOSUPPORT; /* rpcbind server doesn't support this rpcbind protocol version */ if (status == -EPROTONOSUPPORT) xprt->bind_index++; if (status < 0) { /* rpcbind server not available on remote host? */ xprt->ops->set_port(xprt, 0); } else if (map->r_port == 0) { /* Requested RPC service wasn't registered on remote host */ xprt->ops->set_port(xprt, 0); status = -EACCES; } else { /* Succeeded */ xprt->ops->set_port(xprt, map->r_port); ^ -- Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html