Re: PROBLEM: kernel BUG at inode.c:1204! in 2.2.26

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 10:13:57 EST


On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 09:46:23AM -0500, Albert Chin-A-Young wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:33:51AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > I believe this mibht be caused by the VMWare modules you are using.
> >
> > Mind trying to reproduce it without external modules?
>
> Sure. I'll reboot tonight without the modules. BTW, why do you think
> this?

Because I've never seen such report on mainline.

But actually this might be related to some fixes in the VFS.

In the meantine, run without the vmware modules please.

> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 11:14:20PM -0500, Albert Chin-A-Young wrote:
> > > Upgraded to 2.2.26 on April 26 and received the following on April 27:
> > >
> > > kernel: kernel BUG at inode.c:1204!
> > > kernel: invalid operand: 0000
> > > kernel: CPU: 0
> > > kernel: EIP: 0010:[iput+608/624] Tainted: PF
> > > kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
> > > kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: de603980 ecx: de603990 edx: de603990
> > > kernel: esi: f7e6bc00 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00007a61 esp: f7e71efc
> > > kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> > > kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 4, stackpage=f7e71000)
> > > kernel: Stack: 00000292 de605880 00000292 de605918 de605900 de603980 c0148a4d de603980
> > > kernel: de605880 00000017 c1886114 c0260e38 000063ad c0148da4 00009446 c012d336
> > > kernel: 00000006 000001d0 ffffffff 000001d0 00000017 00000020 000001d0 c0260e38
> > > kernel: Call Trace: [prune_dcache+221/336] [shrink_dcache_memory+36/64] [shrink_cache+358/896] [shrink_caches+61/96] [try_to_free_pages_zone+98/240]
> > > kernel: [kswapd_balance_pgdat+102/176] [kswapd_balance+40/64] [kswapd+152/192] [kswapd+0/192] [rest_init+0/64] [arch_kernel_thread+46/64]
> > > kernel: [kswapd+0/192]
> > > kernel:
> > > kernel: Code: 0f 0b b4 04 86 4b 23 c0 e9 c3 fd ff ff 8d 76 00 8b 54 24 04
> > >
> > > I did not encounter an OOPS. I saw this and then rebooted.
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