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On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 22:00 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I've just got this oops (causing the machine to hang finally)...
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > Soeren
> 
> I've seen an awful lot of oopses out there on this path,
> kswapd->shrink_icache_memory; some get a little further and oops in
> ext3_discard_reservation.
> 
> A few were chalked up to bad memory, but others were not.  Do you happen
> to use suspend/resume?

Indeed, I suspended/resumed this machine a couple of times before seeing
this... And indeed it sometimes (on high activity, i.e. network/cpu/disk
load as happens when backups are done) oopses/freezes - but only when I
have suspended at least once... 

So I am quite confident it is not the memory - but yes if something
corrupts memory on a suspend/resume cycle on this macbookpro1,1 then the
effect could be the same :(

> Thanks to kerneloops.org... :)
> 
> All code
> ========
>    0: 12 11                   adc    (%ecx),%dl
>    2: f8                      clc
>    3: ff 66 90                jmp    *0xffffff90(%esi)
>    6: 83 ec 0c                sub    $0xc,%esp
>    9: 89 1c 24                mov    %ebx,(%esp)
>    c: 8d 98 60 ff ff ff       lea    0xffffff60(%eax),%ebx
>   12: 89 74 24 04             mov    %esi,0x4(%esp)
>   16: 89 c6                   mov    %eax,%esi
>   18: 89 7c 24 08             mov    %edi,0x8(%esp)
>   1c: 8b 53 70                mov    0x70(%ebx),%edx
>   1f: 8b 7b 54                mov    0x54(%ebx),%edi
>   22: 85 d2                   test   %edx,%edx
>   24: 74 16                   je     0x3c
>   26: 83 fa ff                cmp    $0xffffffff,%edx
>   29: 74 11                   je     0x3c
>   2b:*        f0 ff 0a                lock decl (%edx)     <-- trapping
>   instruction
> 
> Looks like it blew up in (inlined) posix_acl_release(), I think
> EXT3_I(inode)->i_acl passed to it was 66e88e66, in %edx.
> 
> I think %edi is the i_block_alloc_info, 0f01c883, which also looks
> crunchy.  Use after free perhaps?
> 
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 66e88e66
> 
> Nice symmetric number, anyway.  :)
> 
> I've seen enough of these now, something real seems to be going on but I
> don't know what yet.

And I unfortunately have no idea how to trace this down further/how to
help you with this...

Soeren

> -Eric
> 
> > printing eip: c01fac85 *pde = 00000000 
> > Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP 
> > Modules linked in: hci_usb hidp rfcomm l2cap bluetooth tun cpufreq_stats
> coretemp xfrm_user xfrm4_tunnel tunnel4 ipcomp esp4 ah4 aes_generic hfsplus
> binfmt_misc fuse ebtable_broute bridge llc ebtable_nat ebtable_filter
> ebtables eeprom applesmc hwmon input_polldev snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss
> snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer appletouch evdev i2c_i801 snd soundcore
> snd_page_alloc sky2 video intel_agp output agpgart
> > 
> > Pid: 205, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted (2.6.24-rc8-sonne #7)
> > EIP: 0060:[<c01fac85>] EFLAGS: 00010213 CPU: 1
> > EIP is at ext3_clear_inode+0x25/0xa0
> > EAX: c008f0a0 EBX: c008f000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 66e88e66
> > ESI: c008f0a0 EDI: 0f01c883 EBP: 0000004d ESP: f7d29ebc
> >  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
> > Process kswapd0 (pid: 205, ti=f7d28000 task=f7fdf540 task.ti=f7d28000)
> > Stack: c008f0a0 00000000 f7d29ef8 c0192d62 0000004d c008f0a0 c008f0a8
> c019309a 
> >        e98b9ac8 00000080 00000080 f7d29ef8 c01932ec 00000000 00000080
> c008f2b0 
> >        ea1bdcd8 0002d438 0000013f c04ac24c 000000d0 c0166e4c 00002e0b
> 00000000 
> > Call Trace:
> >  [<c0192d62>] clear_inode+0x62/0x140
> >  [<c019309a>] dispose_list+0x1a/0xe0
> >  [<c01932ec>] shrink_icache_memory+0x18c/0x250
> >  [<c0166e4c>] shrink_slab+0x12c/0x1a0
> >  [<c016726d>] kswapd+0x32d/0x4d0
> >  [<c0142020>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
> >  [<c0127c5d>] complete+0x3d/0x60
> >  [<c0166f40>] kswapd+0x0/0x4d0
> >  [<c0141d52>] kthread+0x42/0x70
> >  [<c0141d10>] kthread+0x0/0x70
> >  [<c01050b3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
> >  =======================
> > Code: 12 11 f8 ff 66 90 83 ec 0c 89 1c 24 8d 98 60 ff ff ff 89 74 24 04 89
> c6 89 7c 24 08 8b 53 70 8b 7b 54 85 d2 74 16 83 fa ff 74 11 <f0> ff 0a 0f 94
> c0 84 c0 75 51 c7 43 70 ff ff ff ff 8b 53 74 85 
> > EIP: [<c01fac85>] ext3_clear_inode+0x25/0xa0 SS:ESP 0068:f7d29ebc
> > ---[ end trace 8dd028de7ae6e34e ]---
> >