I'm currently running 2.6.9-6.28 RHEL4 and I am seeing this random panic. I can't reproduce it on demand but it occurs from time to time when running some of my product tests: 4>------------[ cut here ]------------ <1>kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/dir.c:20! <1>invalid operand: 0000 [#1] <4>SMP <4>Modules linked in: nfs(U) lockd(U) md5(U) ipv6(U) parport_pc(U) lp(U) parport(U) autofs4(U) i2c_dev(U) i2c_core(U) sunrpc(U) ipt_REJECT(U) ipt_state(U) ip_conntrack(U) iptable_filter(U) ip_tables(U) dm_mod(U) button(U) battery(U) ac(U) ohci_hcd(U) tg3(U) e100(U) mii(U) floppy(U) sg(U) ext3(U) jbd(U) qla2200(U) qla2xxx(U) scsi_transport_fc(U) aic7xxx(U) sd_mod(U) scsi_mod(U) <4>CPU: 0 <4>EIP: 0060:[<c018d928>] Tainted: PF VLI <4>EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.9-5.ELvsmp) <4>EIP is at sysfs_d_iput+0x14/0x65 <4>eax: ea87bb94 ebx: f3800438 ecx: f3800400 edx: c03def80 <4>esi: f55c1bc0 edi: ea87bb9c ebp: f7dc9eb8 esp: f7dc9eb0 <4>ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 <4>Process kswapd0 (pid: 63, threadinfo=f7dc8000 task=f7dc5330) <4>Stack: f3800438 ea87bb94 f7dc9ed4 c016e04b ea87bb94 f3800438 00000080 c1810880 [0]more> <4> 054e354e f7dc9ee0 c016e3f5 0000007f f7dc9f1c c0148066 00000080 000000d0 <4> 00570300 00006664 00570300 00000000 00000000 0000048d 00000000 f7ffe560 <4>Call Trace: <4> [<c0106d9b>] show_stack+0x74/0x7c <4> [<c0106ead>] show_registers+0xf2/0x15b <4> [<c010705e>] die+0xd8/0x17d <4> [<c010741e>] do_invalid_op+0xd6/0xe0 <4> [<c02e30ef>] error_code+0x2f/0x38 <4> [<c016e04b>] prune_dcache+0x140/0x197 <4> [<c016e3f5>] shrink_dcache_memory+0x19/0x32 <4> [<c0148066>] shrink_slab+0xf2/0x160 <4> [<c014929e>] balance_pgdat+0x1bf/0x2d9 <4> [<c0149488>] kswapd+0xd0/0xd4 <4> [<c010521d>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb <4>Code: e9 94 fe ff ff e8 19 26 15 00 e9 01 ff ff ff e8 43 26 15 00 eb 93 90 55 89 e5 8b 45 08 56 53 8b 70 54 85 f6 74 47 39 46 20 74 08 <0f> 0b 14 00 7a 1f 30 c0 c7 46 20 00 00 00 00 f0 ff 0e 0f 94 c0 <4> [0]kdb> [0]kdb> bt Stack traceback for pid 63 0xf7dc5330 63 1 1 0 R 0xf7dc5580 *kswapd0 EBP EIP Function (args) 0xf7dc9eb8 0xc018d928 sysfs_d_iput+0x14 (0xf7dc9e7c, 0x0, 0xf3800438, 0xf3800400, 0xc03def80) 0xc02e30ef error_code+0x2f Interrupt registers: eax = 0xea87bb9c ebx = 0xf7dc9e7c ecx = 0x00000000 edx = 0xf3800438 esi = 0xf3800400 edi = 0xc03def80 esp = 0x00000060 eip = 0x0000007b ebp = 0xf55c1bc0 xss = 0x00010206 xcs = 0xffffffff eflags = 0xc018d928 xds = 0xf7dc9eb8 xes = 0xea87bb94 origeax = 0xc017007b ®s = 0xf7dc9e74 Interrupt from user space, end of kernel trace [0]kdb> Has anyone seen this? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/