Oopses with heavy disk activity with 2.4 on VIA Apollo (VT82C586B)

Peter Cordes (peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca)
Sat, 16 Jun 2001 19:02:03 -0300

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This is a bug report about the VIA IDE driver. I'm forwarding it here
because bugs@linux-ide.org bounced.

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Subject: oopses with heavy disk activity with 2.4 on VIA Apollo (VT82C586B)
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From: Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>

I rescued a P5BV3+ (a super 7) mobo with a VIA MVP3 chipset from the trash
(I know the guy who was tossing it, and he didn't say anything about it
being damaged, just old). I moved my disks over from my old system, and
compiled myself a kernel for it. It's got an AMD k6-2 at 350MHz, and the
memory bus is running at 100MHz. I've run memtest86 for a long time
(several complete passes, one with "extended tests") and found no errors.

The problem is that all the 2.4 kernels I've tried oops under heavy disk
load. A couple typical ones are like this:

ksymoops 2.4.1 on i586 2.2.19-idepci. Options used
-v /usr/src/linux/vmlinux (specified)
-K (specified)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.5 (specified)
-m /boot/System.map-2.4.5 (specified)

No modules in ksyms, skipping objects
No ksyms, skipping lsmod
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000848d
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: c010fb03
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: *pde = 00000000
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Oops: 0000
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: CPU: 0
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: EIP: 0010:[__wake_up+51/168]
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: EFLAGS: 00010017
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: eax: c123fe10 ebx: 00008491 ecx: c8b6a6e4 edx: c123fdf8
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: esi: c8b6a6e4 edi: 00008489 ebp: c8b87ef4 esp: c8b87ed8
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Process bonnie++ (pid: 329, stackpage=c8b87000)
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Stack: c123fdf4 c8b6a6e4 c123fdcc c123fdf8 00000001 00000282 00000003 000020e9
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: c0125481 c01e2134 c01e2304 00000002 00000000 c0126b34 c01e2134 00000000
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: c01e230c 00000000 c13bee48 c0126c11 c01e2300 00000000 00000002 00000001
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Call Trace: [reclaim_page+969/1016] [__alloc_pages_limit+108/148] [__alloc_pages+181/584] [generic_file_write+843/1336] [sys_write+142/196] [system_call+51/64]
Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Code: 8b 4f 04 8b 1b 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 51 31 c0 9c 5e fa c7 01 00
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386

Code; 00000000 Before first symbol
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code; 00000000 Before first symbol
0: 8b 4f 04 mov 0x4(%edi),%ecx
Code; 00000003 Before first symbol
3: 8b 1b mov (%ebx),%ebx
Code; 00000005 Before first symbol
5: 8b 01 mov (%ecx),%eax
Code; 00000007 Before first symbol
7: 85 45 fc test %eax,0xfffffffc(%ebp)
Code; 0000000a Before first symbol
a: 74 51 je 5d <_EIP+0x5d> 0000005d Before first symbol
Code; 0000000c Before first symbol
c: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax
Code; 0000000e Before first symbol
e: 9c pushf
Code; 0000000f Before first symbol
f: 5e pop %esi
Code; 00000010 Before first symbol
10: fa cli
Code; 00000011 Before first symbol
11: c7 01 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,(%ecx)

Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000045bd
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: c010fb03
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: *pde = 075d6067
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Oops: 0000
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: CPU: 0
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: EIP: 0010:[__wake_up+51/168]
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: EFLAGS: 00010017
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: eax: c123fe10 ebx: 000045c1 ecx: c8b6a6e4 edx: c111edf8
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: esi: c111edf4 edi: 000045b9 ebp: c13c3f94 esp: c13c3f78
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 3, stackpage=c13c3000)
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Stack: c111edcc c111edf4 00000000 c111edf8 00000001 00000282 00000003 000041c8
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: c01259dc 00000004 00000000 00000000 0008e000 00000000 00000004 00000000
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: 00002159 00000000 c0125ffd 00000004 00000000 c13c2000 c01bc391 c13c2239
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Call Trace: [page_launder+1324/2096] [do_try_to_free_pages+29/88] [kswapd+83/224] [kernel_thread+40/56]
Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Code: 8b 4f 04 8b 1b 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 51 31 c0 9c 5e fa c7 01 00

This happens pretty consistently when I run 2.4.5. I haven't tried earlier
2.4 kernels, since I thought it would be unlikely to help.

Luckily for me, 2.2 kernels seem to have no trouble, even when doing ultra
DMA. I ran bonnie++ after running hdparm -m16 -u1 -d1 -c1 /dev/hdc, and it
completed without causing any problems. Under 2.4.5, this always gave an
oops pretty quickly, and the bonnie++ process would be in an un-killable
disk-sleep. I had to reboot the machine to get rid of it.

The precompiled Debian 2.2.19-idepci kernel says this on bootup:
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: FUJITSU MPG3307AT, ATA DISK drive
hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR13.0A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW DRIVE SW-212B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: FUJITSU MPG3307AT, 29319MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=59570/16/63
hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR13.0A, 12416MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=25228/16/63
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache

My 2.4.5 kernel was compiled with gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian
prerelease). (I'm running Debian woody.)

This is really annoying, because I want to use 2.4 on this machine for DRI
with the 3DFX Voodoo3 I just got for it, netfilter, and raid2... Oh well, I
guess I'll survive with 2.2.19 until this gets figured out. I'm willing to
do some testing on this, since I've got other computers that I can send
email from if this one eats its disk.

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Peter Cordes ;  e-mail: X(peter@llama.nslug. , ns.ca)

"The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours!
 Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
 my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

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Peter Cordes ;  e-mail: X(peter@llama.nslug. , ns.ca)

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 Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
 my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
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