Hello, Not sure this is still important as the kernel is a bit old (2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp) but I run into an oops on dual sparc64. The box is SUN ULTRA 60 - USII 2 x 450MHZ. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000703ce000 tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = 000000000000021c tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd = fffff8009ac02000 \|/ ____ \|/ "@'/ .. \`@" /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/ kswapd0(123): Oops [#1] TSTATE: 0000009980009606 TPC: 00000000004b3544 TNPC: 00000000004b355c Y: 00000000 Not tainted TPC: <iput+0x24/0xa0> g0: fffff8008b9ee8d0 g1: 00000000703cea28 g2: 0000000000000000 g3: fffff800b7845f70 g4: fffff8008103a960 g5: fffff800803934c0 g6: fffff800bf318000 g7: fffff800b7845f08 o0: fffff800b7845f00 o1: 0000000000000400 o2: 0000000000000000 o3: 0000000000000000 o4: 0000000000000000 o5: 0000000000714000 sp: fffff800bf31b0e1 ret_pc: 00000000004b13fc RPC: <dentry_iput+0xb0/0xcc> l0: fffff800b7845f00 l1: fffff800bfbcec98 l2: 0000000000000001 l3: 800000008996cfb2 l4: fffff800803a92b0 l5: 0000000000000001 l6: 00000000007490c8 l7: fffff800941fc388 i0: fffff800bfbcec98 i1: 0000000000000000 i2: 00000000006abdb0 i3: 0000000000200200 i4: 0000000000100100 i5: 00000000006b1800 i6: fffff800bf31b1a1 i7: 00000000004b22cc I7: <prune_one_dentry+0x7c/0xac> Caller[00000000004b22cc]: prune_one_dentry+0x7c/0xac Caller[00000000004b246c]: prune_dcache+0x170/0x1c0 Caller[00000000004b24e4]: shrink_dcache_memory+0x28/0x5c Caller[0000000000481ef0]: shrink_slab+0xcc/0x164 Caller[0000000000482290]: kswapd+0x308/0x458 Caller[00000000004630b4]: kthread+0xbc/0xe8 Caller[0000000000417a38]: kernel_thread+0x38/0x48 Caller[0000000000462eb0]: keventd_create_kthread+0x18/0x84 Instruction DUMP: c45e2220 80a0a020 12680007 <c2586038> 11001992 92102473 7ffd9c09 90122370 91d02005 The kernel is default from debian etch. Second issue is that kernel hangs from time to time but it looks like the i/o to the scsi disk is dead. I installed fresh etch, downloaded 2.6.23-rc1-mm2, started compiling allmodconfig and it hung after a while. After reboot the ext3 partition was messed up and reinstall was needed. Is this a known issue? Should I just upgrade and forget? Regards, Mariusz $ cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird) fpu : UltraSparc II integrated FPU prom : OBP 3.17.0 1998/10/23 11:26 type : sun4u ncpus probed : 2 ncpus active : 2 D$ parity tl1 : 0 I$ parity tl1 : 0 Cpu0Bogo : 900.41 Cpu0ClkTck : 000000001ad1d08f Cpu2Bogo : 899.96 Cpu2ClkTck : 000000001ad1d08f MMU Type : Spitfire State: CPU0: online CPU2: online $ lspci 0000:80:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Psycho PCI Bus Module 0001:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Psycho PCI Bus Module 0001:00:01.0 Bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. EBUS (rev 01) 0001:00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Happy Meal (rev 01) 0001:00:03.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 14) 0001:00:03.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 14) $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 1034176 kB MemFree: 13384 kB Buffers: 47064 kB Cached: 860456 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 429072 kB Inactive: 500544 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 1034176 kB LowFree: 13384 kB SwapTotal: 457832 kB SwapFree: 457728 kB Dirty: 6384 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 21888 kB Mapped: 7280 kB Slab: 86264 kB PageTables: 944 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 974920 kB Committed_AS: 43776 kB VmallocTotal: 4194304 kB VmallocUsed: 176 kB VmallocChunk: 4194128 kB $ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU2 0: 12355899 0 <NULL> timer <--------------- NULL? 2: 0 0 sun4u PSYCHO UE 3: 0 0 sun4u PSYCHO CE 6: 0 0 sun4u PSYCHO PCIERR-A 7: 0 0 sun4u sab 8: 5 0 sun4u su(kbd) 9: 0 0 sun4u su(mouse) 14: 0 34244 sun4u eth0 15: 0 113689 sun4u sym53c8xx 16: 30 0 sun4u sym53c8xx 17: 0 0 sun4u PSYCHO PCIERR-B - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html