Re: 2.4.0 kernel paging error

Hi Mark,

I have seen this error several times and tried to report it
yesterday to the list. (Subject: 2.4.0-ac4 lockups)

I mainly see this when in X and prolonged network activity is
taking place. Running something like Netscape seems to favour
this to happen, but I have seen this happen when using the
console (Alt-F1/Alt-F2) and changing the console fonts using
consolechars.

Magic SysRq to sync fails with messages very similar to yours,
but not always in kswapd. So you are not alone in seeing this.

(Sorry about formatting of the text, Lotus Notes is not to
 good for mailing-list usage...)

      /Anders

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Mark Hindley <[e-mail]>
01/10/01 09:39 AM
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Hi,

I am running 2.4.0 final. I got the following failed paging request which
produced a complete freeze.

As you can see it was precipitated by cron starting to run some
housekeeping stuff overnight.

Has anyone else had prblems?

Mark

Jan 10 02:25:01 hindleyhome /USR/SBIN/CRON[3823]: (root) CMD (test -e
/usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily)
Jan 10 02:30:01 hindleyhome /USR/SBIN/CRON[3827]: (root) CMD (/sbin/rmmod
-a)
Jan 10 02:30:01 hindleyhome /USR/SBIN/CRON[3828]: (root) CMD (test -x
/usr/sbin/anacron && /usr/sbin/anacron -s)
Jan 10 02:30:01 hindleyhome anacron[3830]: Anacron 2.1 started on
2001-01-10
Jan 10 02:30:01 hindleyhome anacron[3830]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 5
min.
Jan 10 02:30:01 hindleyhome anacron[3830]: Jobs will be executed
sequentially
Jan 10 02:35:01 hindleyhome /USR/SBIN/CRON[3832]: (root) CMD (/sbin/rmmod
-a)
Jan 10 02:35:01 hindleyhome anacron[3830]: Job `cron.daily' started
Jan 10 02:35:01 hindleyhome anacron[3836]: Updated timestamp for job
`cron.daily' to 2001-01-10
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
at virtual address c4870840
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel:  printing eip:
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: c013d747
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: *pde = 03d61063
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: *pte = 00000000
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: Oops: 0000
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: CPU:    0
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: EIP:    0010:[clear_inode+159/216]
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: eax: c4870820   ebx: c338f4a0   ecx:
c338f4a8   edx: c1169fa4
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: esi: c1169fa4   edi: c1dccde8   ebp:
c1169fac   esp: c1169f78
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 3,
stackpage=c1169000)
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: Stack: c338f4a0 c013d7bf c338f4a0
c1dccc08 c1dccc00 c013d9c2 c1169fa4 000000ee
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel:        00000004 00000000 000003b3
c2c8fde8 c3e38bc8 00000000 c013d9f1 00000000
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel:        c0126453 00000006 00000004
00000006 00000004 00010f00 c01d32d7 c1168239
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: Call Trace: [dispose_list+63/88]
[prune_icache+234/248] [shrink_icache_memory+33/48]
[do_try_to_free_pages+91/128] [kswapd+116/272] [kernel_thread+40/56]
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel:
Jan 10 02:35:53 hindleyhome kernel: Code: 8b 40 20 85 c0 74 06 53 ff d0 83
c4 04 8b 83 e0 00 00 00 85