2.0.35 - General Protection failure

Oskar Liljeblad (osk@hem.passagen.se)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:23:10 +0200


These "gpf's" occurred on a Intel TX P5 MMX machine running RedHat's
precompiled kernels to 2.0.35. See below for some background information on
these errors.

general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524]
EFLAGS: 00010287
eax: ffffffff ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98
esi: 000000b2 edi: 00000acc ebp: 00003000 esp: 0009afa4
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0018 gs: 0018 ss: 0018
Process kswapd (pid: 3, process nr: 3, stackpage=0009a000)
Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000003 00000000 00000010 02077098 00120130
00000006
00000000 00000001 00000003 002befdc 00000000 00009000 0012033d
00000003
00000000 00000000 00000100 00109526 00000000 00120200 001d2b70
Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [kswapd+317/332] [init+70/864]
[kswapd+0/332]
Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524]
EFLAGS: 00010287
eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98
esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 0270aed0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process in.ftpd (pid: 19551, process nr: 37, stackpage=0270a000)
Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 02ac7c0c 02077098 00120130
00000006
00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 00fcf818 027d5810 00120bc5
00000003
00000000 00000001 0011a798 40038000 00fcf818 027d5810 0137c067
00000000
Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444]
[do_wp_page+0/600] [do_wp_page+18/600] [do_wp_page+0/600] [do_no_page+0/776]
[do_page_fault+284/732]
[do_page_fault+0/732] [do_bottom_half+59/96] [error_code+64/72]
Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524]
EFLAGS: 00010287
eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98
esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 02b33e10
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process inetd (pid: 249, process nr: 14, stackpage=02b33000)
Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 000863fc 02077098 00120130
00000006
00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 02b0b810 00000012 00120bc5
00000003
00000000 00000001 00000020 00000001 02b0b810 00000012 000000f4
00000001
Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444]
[do_select+229/632] [__get_fd_set+43/100] [sys_select+394/604]
[copy_page_range+371/916] [do_wp_page+18/600]
[do_wp_page+0/600] [close_fp+55/92] [sys_close+68/80]
[system_call+85/124]
Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524]
EFLAGS: 00010287
eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98
esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 01b8af14
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process in.ftpd (pid: 19553, process nr: 38, stackpage=01b8a000)
Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 0011d6f4 02077098 00120130
00000006
00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 bfffef41 ffffffdc 00120bc5
00000003
00000000 00000001 00001000 000010c0 bfffef41 ffffffdc 008a5025
00000025
Call Trace: [filemap_nopage+292/736] [try_to_free_page+80/180]
[__get_free_pages+421/444] [getname+215/320] [sys_open+30/112]
[system_call+85/124]
Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524]
EFLAGS: 00010287
eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98
esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 02af4f04
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process bash (pid: 19560, process nr: 35, stackpage=02af4000)
Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 02077098 00120130
00000006
00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 bffffadd fffffff2 00120bc5
00000003
00000000 00000001 00000524 00000524 bffffadd fffffff2 4006d000
02c79698
Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444]
[getname+215/320] [lnamei+18/68] [sys_newlstat+18/84] [sys_newlstat+39/84]
[system_call+85/124]
Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524]
EFLAGS: 00010287
eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98
esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 02d30f04
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process bash (pid: 19563, process nr: 35, stackpage=02d30000)
Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 02077098 00120130
00000006
00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 bffffadd fffffff2 00120bc5
00000003
00000000 00000001 00000524 00000524 bffffadd fffffff2 4006d000
02c79698
Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444]
[getname+215/320] [lnamei+18/68] [sys_newlstat+18/84] [sys_newlstat+39/84]
[system_call+85/124]
Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0

---

general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 0288cee4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process sort (pid: 19645, process nr: 34, stackpage=0288c000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000003 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 00cdf218 017e1198 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 01f7c400 0291d4e4 00cdf218 017e1198 001e5894 00001ff8 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_no_page+436/776] [do_no_page+0/776] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 029bcec0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process gawk (pid: 19674, process nr: 32, stackpage=029bc000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 00886998 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 00000000 00a99300 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 00003000 00001000 00000000 00a99300 016d0484 00a99300 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [try_to_read_ahead+40/296] [generic_file_read+686/1536] [sys_read+190/228] [system_call+85/124] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 02740ec0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process gawk (pid: 19676, process nr: 32, stackpage=02740000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 02c43a00 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 00000000 02c43a00 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 00003000 00002000 00000000 02c43a00 0029b530 00001000 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [try_to_read_ahead+40/296] [generic_file_read+686/1536] [sys_read+190/228] [system_call+85/124] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 02762ee4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process gawk (pid: 19678, process nr: 32, stackpage=02762000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 00099800 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 020cba98 022bc858 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 021cd080 02968230 020cba98 022bc858 0808c000 00000012 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_no_page+436/776] [do_no_page+0/776] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 02968ee4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process gawk (pid: 19680, process nr: 32, stackpage=02968000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 002a1718 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 020cba98 024c44d8 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 02ac7400 00b39330 020cba98 024c44d8 0006f000 00088100 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_no_page+436/776] [do_no_page+0/776] [do_mmap+761/828] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 02913ee4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process gawk (pid: 19682, process nr: 32, stackpage=02913000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 002ab7c4 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 020cbb98 024c4658 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 027ee080 027a327c 020cbb98 024c4658 0809f000 00000012 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_no_page+436/776] [do_no_page+0/776] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 027a4ee4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process gawk (pid: 19684, process nr: 32, stackpage=027a4000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 001fd250 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 020cba98 022bc618 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 02820080 0296d274 020cba98 022bc618 0809d000 00000012 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_no_page+436/776] [do_no_page+0/776] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 0098bee4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process gawk (pid: 19686, process nr: 32, stackpage=0098b000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 0029baac 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 020cbb98 022bc8d8 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 02a64080 00890268 020cbb98 022bc8d8 0809a000 00000012 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_no_page+436/776] [do_no_page+0/776] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 0081aee4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process gawk (pid: 19688, process nr: 32, stackpage=0081a000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000001 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 020cba98 024c4d58 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 02824080 024eb25c 020cba98 024c4d58 08097000 00000012 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_no_page+436/776] [do_no_page+0/776] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 0081aee4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process find (pid: 19689, process nr: 31, stackpage=0081a000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000f5d 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 020cba98 022bc018 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 028e1400 027e22cc 020cba98 022bc018 0006f000 00088100 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_no_page+436/776] [do_no_page+0/776] [do_mmap+761/828] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 02a7bf14 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process makewhatis (pid: 19692, process nr: 32, stackpage=02a7b000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 02b0e025 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 08098d51 ffffffdc 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 00001000 000102b0 08098d51 ffffffdc 02b0e025 007cf244 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [getname+215/320] [sys_execve+18/68] [sys_close+68/80] [error_code+64/72] [system_call+85/124] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 01166ed0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process makewhatis (pid: 19656, process nr: 30, stackpage=01166000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 00cdf198 0009b810 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 0011a798 08095044 00cdf198 0009b810 024eb067 00744278 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_wp_page+0/600] [do_wp_page+18/600] [do_wp_page+0/600] [do_fork+1746/1988] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [sys_close+68/80] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 01166ed0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process su (pid: 19780, process nr: 31, stackpage=01166000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 00448b98 02186414 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 0011a798 0804e584 00448b98 02186414 02b0e067 00453374 Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_wp_page+0/600] [do_wp_page+18/600] [do_wp_page+0/600] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 02185ed0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process bash (pid: 19806, process nr: 14, stackpage=02185000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 02921e18 02645414 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 0011a798 400a48a8 02921e18 02645414 01db0067 027a325c Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_wp_page+0/600] [do_wp_page+18/600] [do_wp_page+0/600] [do_fork+1746/1988] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [sys_fork+17/24] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0 general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[shrink_mmap+120/524] EFLAGS: 00010287 eax: 02077098 ebx: 00284860 ecx: 00000006 edx: 51300e98 esi: 0000017f edi: 00000bff ebp: 00003000 esp: 019b2ed0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process bash (pid: 19807, process nr: 23, stackpage=019b2000) Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 02077098 00120130 00000006 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000078 02921e98 02b0b810 00120bc5 00000003 00000000 00000001 0011a798 08098444 02921e98 02b0b810 01db0067 00a0fffc Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/180] [__get_free_pages+421/444] [do_wp_page+0/600] [do_wp_page+18/600] [do_wp_page+0/600] [do_fork+1746/1988] [do_page_fault+284/732] [do_page_fault+0/732] [sys_fork+17/24] [error_code+64/72] Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0 0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0

Some Background:

Last weekend, I was transfering some files to the news server running Linux 2.0.35 at work. I noticed the machine was slower than usual. 'top' showed that update was using 90-98% of CPU time every few seconds, and between that kflushd was using 20-40%. Soon after I had opened a new telnet session to the machine, I was disconnected, and all internet services running on the machine were no longer available.

I was able to access the machine's console a couple of days later, and found that it contained kernel debug messages. I could log in, but not much was working (su'ing, ethernet connection), so I rebooted the computer.

Could this possibly be a hardware? I haven't seem the same error since then. The hardware used: Intel 586MMX 166MHz, Intel TX motherboard (not 100% sure), 48MB EDO (not sure type), non-UDMA Samsung 2.16GB HDD, 3c509 3com Etherlink III network card.

Once again, if there is any more info that you need, please let me know.

Oskar Liljeblad (osk@hem.passagen.se)

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