Re: oops with dual xeon 2.8ghz 4gb ram +smp, software raid, lvm,and xfs

From: David Greaves
Date: Sun Nov 28 2004 - 06:33:17 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:

Phil Dier <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:


Can you rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_4KSTACKS=n?



Looks like 8k stacks did the trick, at least for the oops. Now I'm
seeing the stuff below.

I got a ton more of this with jfs and xfs, but it seems much less with
reiser. Should I be worried, or is this something I can safely ignore?
It doesn't lock the system.. Could files be getting corrupted?


Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c013c854>] __alloc_pages+0x1b9/0x35e
Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c013ca1e>] __get_free_pages+0x25/0x3f
Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c013fccb>] kmem_getpages+0x21/0xc9
Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140813>] alloc_slabmgmt+0x55/0x5f
Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140992>] cache_grow+0xab/0x14d
Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140ba8>] cache_alloc_refill+0x174/0x219
Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c0140ffe>] __kmalloc+0x85/0x8c
Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c03f4f89>] alloc_skb+0x47/0xe0
Nov 23 17:38:20 calculon [<c032ebe5>] e1000_alloc_rx_buffers+0x44/0xe3



You didn't mention the kernel version. 2.6.9 had problems in this area, so
2.6.10-rc2 should be better. And there are post-2.6.10-rc2 fixes which
will provide more headroom.


Hi
I have a system that's running 2.6.10rc2
It has libata sata_promise + sata_sil drives in an md raid5 array that's used by lvm2 and then xfs; then exported via nfs.
I saw this thread, upgraded to 2.6.10rc2 and I'm posting this in case it's related (it's hard to tell)

This oops happened whilst the box was quiet

Hopefully relevant config bits:
Single processor
echo 16384 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
CONFIG_4KSTACKS=n
I've done a memtest.
I haven't applied the inode patch - I'm usually writing a single 1-3Gb files whilst reading another.

Can I help by providing anything else?

Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00100104
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: printing eip:
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: c0139a62
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: *pde = 00000000
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1]
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: Modules linked in: nfs af_packet ipv6 e100 mii usblp uhci_hcd usbcore nfsd exportfs lockd sunrpc sk98lin unix
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: CPU: 0
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: EIP: 0060:[cache_alloc_refill+210/528] Not tainted VLI
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: EFLAGS: 00010046 (2.6.10-rc2)
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: EIP is at cache_alloc_refill+0xd2/0x210
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: eax: 00100100 ebx: dffe2a00 ecx: ffffffff edx: dffe3a6c
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: esi: c6118020 edi: c6118038 ebp: dffe2a10 esp: dd627e40
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: Process nfsd (pid: 2230, threadinfo=dd626000 task=df1a7a00)
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: Stack: 0000002c 00000008 ca45dcbc c6118038 dffe3a6c dffe3a74 00000296 ca45dcbc
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: d12c7b7c 00000000 c0139d8e dffe3a60 000000d0 fffffff4 c0162d8c dffe3a60
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: 000000d0 dd627ee4 d12c7b7c 00000000 c015922d d12c7b7c fffffff4 ca45dcbc
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: Call Trace:
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [kmem_cache_alloc+62/64] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3e/0x40
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [d_alloc+28/416] d_alloc+0x1c/0x1a0
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [cached_lookup+125/144] cached_lookup+0x7d/0x90
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [__lookup_hash+139/224] __lookup_hash+0x8b/0xe0
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [lookup_hash+31/48] lookup_hash+0x1f/0x30
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [lookup_one_len+97/112] lookup_one_len+0x61/0x70
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [pg0+550179216/1069196288] nfsd_lookup+0x110/0x490 [nfsd]
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [pg0+550211681/1069196288] nfsd3_proc_lookup+0xa1/0xe0[nfsd]
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [pg0+550167977/1069196288] nfsd_dispatch+0xd9/0x230 [nfsd]
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [pg0+550042452/1069196288] svc_process+0x4a4/0x690 [sunrpc]
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [default_wake_function+0/32] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [pg0+550167404/1069196288] nfsd+0x18c/0x2f0 [nfsd]
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [pg0+550167008/1069196288] nfsd+0x0/0x2f0 [nfsd]
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: [kernel_thread_helper+5/20] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x14
Nov 28 09:05:03 cu kernel: Code: 8b 56 10 0f b7 46 14 42 89 56 10 8b 7c 24 0c 0f b7 04 47 66 89 46 14 8b 44 24 2c 3b 50 3c 73 06 49 83 f9 ff 75 c3 8b 56 04 8b 06 <89> 50 04 89 02 c7 46 04 00 02 20 00 66 83 7e 14 ff c7 06 00 01

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