Kernel oops - 2.6.5-rc3-mm4

From: Árni Hermann
Date: Sat Apr 03 2004 - 14:05:38 EST


Got this just after the machine booted, every attempt to reproduce has
failed:

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Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address de78baf8
printing eip:
c017c7e9
*pde = 00078063
*pte = 1e78b000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c017c7e9>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.5-rc3-mm4)
EIP is at proc_pid_stat+0x179/0x400
eax: de78ba70 ebx: d721fa70 ecx: 00000000 edx: d8b27f84
esi: d721fa70 edi: 00000000 ebp: d5ff9f44 esp: d5ff9e28
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process ps (pid: 7659, threadinfo=d5ff9000 task=d5e6aa70)
Stack: d721fa70 c0164f0d d78b5f38 d77b2ebc c03aea00 c03aea00 d5ff9e70
c017a8fb
d78b5f38 d77b2ebc 0000000d c039178a 00000004 d721fa70 ffffffea
fffffff4
d7936f2c d7936ebc d5ff9e94 c015b8f3 d7936ebc d78b5f38 c03ae9a0
d78b5f38
Call Trace:
[<c0164f0d>] d_instantiate+0x4d/0x60
[<c017a8fb>] proc_pident_lookup+0xfb/0x2a0
[<c015b8f3>] real_lookup+0xd3/0x100
[<c015bb56>] do_lookup+0x86/0xa0
[<c0117c58>] kernel_map_pages+0x28/0x60
[<c011de3e>] do_exit+0x1de/0x330
[<c0179793>] proc_info_read+0x53/0x140
[<c014f0df>] vfs_read+0xcf/0x140
[<c014f38f>] sys_read+0x3f/0x60
[<c034a3ee>] sysenter_past_esp+0x43/0x65

Code: cb f9 ff 89 45 d0 89 34 24 e8 b4 cb f9 ff 89 45 cc 8b 86 88 00 00 00
c7 45 bc 00 00 00 00 85 c0 89 45 a8 74 0f 8b 86 90 00 00 00 <8b> 80 88 00
00 00 89 45 bc 8b 86 b8 01 00 00 bb 0a 00 00 00 8b
blk: queue df1b2df8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)


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addr2line reports that it's fs/proc/array.c:350 which is:
ppid = task->pid ? task->real_parent->pid : 0;


I'm running a laptop, HP Compaq nx7000. Config is attached. Running
Gentoo, unstable.

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-- ahr

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