Hi to all, I was running a 2.6.21.7 on PPC MPC8247 CPU when this Oops happens (see the attachment). Before writing on the kernel m-list claiming having found a bug or something like that I would have some feedback from others newbies. Please leave me in CC if you answer. Thanks, -- /roberto
Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] PREEMPT NIP: C00CE7A4 LR: C00CE9B4 CTR: C004B050 REGS: c1a67920 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.21.7) MSR: 00009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR> CR: 28042422 XER: 20000000 DAR: 00000004, DSISR: 20000000 TASK = c1a6f890[1829] 'snoopy' THREAD: c1a66000 GPR00: C00CE9B4 C1A679D0 C1A6F890 CFA006EC C000B758 00000009 82C62B64 0000157D GPR08: 00000000 00000001 22002022 00001032 01261371 114B1958 00000000 C02417A0 GPR16: C2F752C0 FFFFFFFD 00001000 00001000 C1A67E48 C1A67CE4 00000000 00000000 GPR24: C46723EC C1A67BD8 CFBFFD10 C1A67A48 00000001 C1A66000 00000000 CFA006EC NIP [C00CE7A4] __journal_remove_journal_head+0x18/0x204 LR [C00CE9B4] journal_remove_journal_head+0x24/0x58 Call Trace: [C1A679D0] [C1A67BD8] 0xc1a67bd8 (unreliable) [C1A679F0] [C00CE9B4] journal_remove_journal_head+0x24/0x58 [C1A67A10] [C00CA5A8] __process_buffer+0x1d0/0x340 [C1A67A40] [C00CA898] log_do_checkpoint+0x180/0x1e4 [C1A67B90] [C00CA120] __log_wait_for_space+0xcc/0x108 [C1A67BB0] [C00C52C4] start_this_handle+0x124/0x3ec [C1A67C30] [C00C56B0] journal_start+0xbc/0xec [C1A67C50] [C00BF7CC] ext3_journal_start_sb+0x64/0x6c [C1A67C60] [C00B7F4C] ext3_prepare_write+0x44/0x1a8 [C1A67C90] [C00464D8] generic_file_buffered_write+0x248/0x9a8 [C1A67D50] [C0046EAC] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x274/0x640 [C1A67DE0] [C00473AC] generic_file_aio_write+0x68/0xf8 [C1A67E20] [C00B53B0] ext3_file_write+0x20/0xc4 [C1A67E40] [C0069D40] do_sync_write+0xb4/0x10c [C1A67EF0] [C0069E5C] vfs_write+0xc4/0x110 [C1A67F10] [C0069F8C] sys_write+0x50/0x94 [C1A67F40] [C0004100] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 Instruction dump: 83e1001c 38210020 7c0803a6 4e800020 4816a1fd 4bffffe4 9421ffe0 7c0802a6 90010024 bfc10018 7c7f1b78 83c30020 <801e0004> 2c000000 418001b4 38030030 note: snoopy[1829] exited with preempt_count 1
