Ran a load test last night where we created snapshots two snapshots every 2 hours under heavy file system load. We got the following oops: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 802895f5 *pde = 55bd7001 Oops: 0002 CPU: 2 EIP: 0010:[<802895f5>] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010206 eax: 00000000 ebx: f8ab2118 ecx: f8a79048 edx: f8a79030 esi: 00810180 edi: b4db0000 ebp: 00000820 esp: a2765c4c ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process vsftpd (pid: 7309, stackpage=a2765000) Stack: b4db0000 b4db0170 f69b3170 00ea8000 00000080 00000006 00000070 00000000 80286031 a2765caa a2765cac 00810180 b4db0000 00003a02 e338c840 00800070 00ea8000 00000000 00000000 f69b3000 f68a0000 00810180 00000800 08208cbc Call Trace: [<80286031>] [<80286117>] [<80219ccc>] [<80219d41>] [<801d209f>] [<801d26eb>] [<801d2ac7>] [<801d2b2a>] [<801387fd>] [<801d2952>] [<80139b 1d327e>] [<80137807>] [<80106f27>] Code: 89 10 c7 01 00 00 00 00 c7 41 04 00 00 00 00 8b 03 89 48 04 >>EIP; 802895f5 <lvm_snapshot_remap_block+a9/f8> <===== >>ebx; f8ab2118 <[nfstracker].bss.end+490c5/ffe98fa9> >>ecx; f8a79048 <[nfstracker].bss.end+fff5/ffe98fa9> >>edx; f8a79030 <[nfstracker].bss.end+ffdd/ffe98fa9> >>edi; b4db0000 <_end+3499065c/7847565c> >>esp; a2765c4c <_end+223462a8/7847565c> Trace; 80286031 <lvm_map+3b9/490> Trace; 80286117 <lvm_make_request_fn+f/1c> Trace; 80219ccc <generic_make_request+11c/12c> Trace; 80219d41 <submit_bh+65/80> Trace; 801d209f <submit_page+57/74> Trace; 801d26eb <page_state_convert+40b/4a0> Trace; 801d2ac7 <linvfs_writepage+3b/e0> Trace; 801d2b2a <linvfs_writepage+9e/e0> Trace; 801387fd <write_some_buffers+9d/14c> Trace; 801d2952 <linvfs_get_block+1e/24> Code; 802895f5 <lvm_snapshot_remap_block+a9/f8> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; 802895f5 <lvm_snapshot_remap_block+a9/f8> <===== 0: 89 10 mov %edx,(%eax) <===== Code; 802895f7 <lvm_snapshot_remap_block+ab/f8> 2: c7 01 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,(%ecx) Code; 802895fd <lvm_snapshot_remap_block+b1/f8> Trace; 80219d41 <submit_bh+65/80> Trace; 801d209f <submit_page+57/74> Trace; 801d26eb <page_state_convert+40b/4a0> Trace; 801d2ac7 <linvfs_writepage+3b/e0> Trace; 801d2b2a <linvfs_writepage+9e/e0> Trace; 801387fd <write_some_buffers+9d/14c> Trace; 801d2952 <linvfs_get_block+1e/24> Code; 802895f5 <lvm_snapshot_remap_block+a9/f8> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; 802895f5 <lvm_snapshot_remap_block+a9/f8> <===== 0: 89 10 mov %edx,(%eax) <===== Code; 802895f7 <lvm_snapshot_remap_block+ab/f8> 2: c7 01 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,(%ecx) Code; 802895fd <lvm_snapshot_remap_block+b1/f8> 8: c7 41 04 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,0x4(%ecx) Code; 80289604 <lvm_snapshot_remap_block+b8/f8> f: 8b 03 mov (%ebx),%eax Code; 80289606 <lvm_snapshot_remap_block+ba/f8> 11: 89 48 04 mov %ecx,0x4(%eax) 10 warnings issued. Results may not be reliable. This was run on a 2.4.21 system using LVM 1.0.7. The system has 2GB of memory and is configured with HIGHME64G. We are running the latest 2.4.21 XFS and are using xfs_freeze to quiesce the file system. We are not using the VFS_LOCK patch. Anyone have any ideas what may be causing this? Thanks, Andrew -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andrew Patterson Voice: (970) 898-3261 Hewlett-Packard Company Email: andrew@fc.hp.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/