Bug#317386: Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:51:19PM -0500, Duane Meyer wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686
> Version: 2.4.27-10
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
> 
> 
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:144!
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: invalid operand: 0000
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: CPU:    0
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: EIP:    0010:[__free_pages_ok+68/720]
> Not tainted
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: EFLAGS: 00210282
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: c101ef20   ecx:
> c025ecf0   edx: c025eb40
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: esi: c101ef20   edi: 00000000   ebp:
> dda0bc54   esp: c160bf0c
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 4,
> stackpage=3Dc160b000)
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: Stack: 00000001 00200282 00000003
> cb5fa140 cb5fa140 cb5fa140 c101ef20 c014282c=20
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel:        cb5fa140 00000000 c101ef20
> c025ec18 00003e6b c0135557 c101ef20 000001d0=20
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel:        00000c7f 000001d0 0000001f
> 00000020 000001d0 c025ec18 c025ec18 c013577d=20
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: Call Trace:
> [try_to_free_buffers+140/256] [shrink_cache+807/944]
> [shrink_caches+61/96] [try_to_free_pages_zone+98/256]
> [kswapd_balance_pgdat+102/176]
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel:   [kswapd_balance+40/64] [kswapd+152/185]
> [rest_init+0/64] [arch_kernel_thread+46/64] [kswapd+0/185]
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel:=20
> Jul  6 08:25:45 swr999 kernel: Code: 0f 0b 90 00 50 a0 23 c0 8b 35 50 b2
> 2c c0 89 d8 29 f0 c1 f8=20

That looks very unfun. Do you have any more information on this.
Was the system under load at the time, do you have any
crazy kernel modules loaded, does it happen every Tuesday at 4am,
have you overcloced the CPU? That kind of thing.

> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>  APT prefers unstable
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
> Locale: LANG=3DC, LC_CTYPE=3DC (charmap=3DANSI_X3.4-1968)
> 
> Versions of packages kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686 depends on:
> ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
> ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.81.1   tools to create initrd image f=
> or p
> ii  modutils                      2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 

-- 
Horms