Dear all: I use kernel 2.6.18 and I get the kernel panic as below: Unhandled kernel unaligned access[#1]: Cpu 0 $ 0 : 00000000 11000001 0000040a 8721f0d8 $ 4 : 874a6c00 80001d18 00000000 00000000 $ 8 : 00000000 ffffa438 00000000 874c2000 $12 : 00000000 00000000 00005800 00011000 $16 : 80001d10 874a6c40 874a6c00 87d7bf00 $20 : 874a6c78 871a0000 87370000 874a6c80 $24 : 00000000 2aacc770 $28 : 87d7a000 87d7be88 ffffa438 8709ed20 Hi : 00000000 Lo : 00000000 epc : 8709e72c sync_sb_inodes+0x9c/0x320 Not tainted ra : 8709ed20 writeback_inodes+0xb4/0x160 Status: 11000003 KERNEL EXL IE Cause : 00808010 BadVA : 00000442 PrId : 00019654 Modules linked in: Process pdflush (pid: 38, threadinfo=87d7a000, task=87d695b8) Stack : ffffffff ffffffff 871c0000 87cae4d8 874a6c00 874a6c40 87d7bf00 871c4290 87d7bf64 871a0000 87370000 00000000 00000000 8709ed20 ffffffff ffffffff 8735e380 874bb8a8 00000400 0000034b ffffa62c 87d7bf00 87057f9c 00000000 87189270 87188b20 00000000 87189564 ffff9880 87362d58 00000000 00000000 87d7bef8 00000400 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ... Call Trace: [<8709ed20>] writeback_inodes+0xb4/0x160 [<87057f9c>] wb_kupdate+0xb8/0x154 [<87189270>] __schedule+0x998/0xb34 [<87188b20>] __schedule+0x248/0xb34 [<87189564>] preempt_schedule+0x68/0xac [<87058d74>] pdflush+0x188/0x284 [<87058cfc>] pdflush+0x110/0x284 [<8703b9e4>] kthread+0x14c/0x1b8 [<87057ee4>] wb_kupdate+0x0/0x154 [<87058bec>] pdflush+0x0/0x284 [<8703ba00>] kthread+0x168/0x1b8 [<87003398>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18 [<87003388>] kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x18 Code: 8e450084 24b0fff8 8e02009c <8c510038> 8e220008 30420002 1040000f 00000000 8ca20000 note: pdflush[38] exited with preempt_count 1 my questions are: 1. what does "Not tainted" mean? 2. I grep the kernel and I find the above message comes from do_ade in unaligned.c, If I guess correctly. but from the call trace I cannot find out who call it. who and how kernel pass the information to do_ade? 3. as far as i know, inode is the data structure we used to record file. >From what information in the inode I can find out the file name the writeback_inodes try to write? appreciate your help, miloody -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ