On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:55:16PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > I just had a bug in one VM, and don't know if this is XFS related, but it seems so. > > [1172140.926859] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00000003d03dd178 > [1172140.926877] IP: [<ffffffff80034872>] dequeue_task+0x72/0x110 > [1172140.926897] PGD 1b54b067 PUD 0 > [1172140.926897] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The stack trace shows pdflush doing writeback, and way down the stack doing a memory allocation that triggered direct reclaim, which caused writeback to occur, which blew the stack..... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs