kernel panic (probably XFS related)

From: Oliver Kiddle (okiddle_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 08/31/04

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    To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:48:01 +0200
    
    

    I'm still having problems with the machine where I previously posted
    about page allocation failures. I recently tried upgrading to 2.6.8.1
    and it has now crashed twice. When running 2.6.3 the machine is stable:
    just the error messages I previously posted about.

    Firstly, with 2.6.8.1, I get a number of these messages but they don't
    seem to be fatal:
      pagebuf_get: failed to lookup pages

    I was around when the second kernel panic occurred so I wrote down some
    of the contents of the console.
      Process ypserv (is mentioned along with pid, threadinfo details)
    then:
      Call Trace:
        memmove+0x4d/0x4f
        cache_flusharray+0x4a/0xb6
        kmem_cache_free+0x48/0x4c
        d_callback+0x29/0x3b
        rcu_do_batch+0x14/0x1f
        tasklet_action+0x40/0x61
        __do_softirq+0x7e/0x80
        do_softirq+0x26/0x28
        do_IRQ+0xc4/0xdf
        common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
    I may have made mistakes in copying that out. I also wrote down the
    register values if they are of any use.

    On both occasions, the machine was up for a couple of days before
    crashing. Previously problems were triggered by xfsdump but this time
    that wasn't running; it was doing it's usual job of handling NIS/NFS for
    about 25 clients.

    Oliver

    PS. Thanks to all the people who helped me out previously.
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