From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266498AbUAWAbr (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:31:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266499AbUAWAbq (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:31:46 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.57]:13735 "EHLO ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266498AbUAWAaU (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:30:20 -0500 Message-ID: <065201c3e148$12ac1bf0$03c8a8c0@kroptech.com> From: "Adam Kropelin" To: "Andrew Morton" Cc: References: <20040122181751.A2101@mail.kroptech.com> <20040122162348.46637991.akpm@osdl.org> Subject: Re: 2.6.1 oops in prune_dcache() Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:29:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Adam Kropelin wrote: >> >> At 4 AM this morning (during cron run, I suppose) a box running 2.6.1 >> hit the oops below. It locked solid, had to hit the reset button to >> reboot it. The machine had been running 2.6.1 for about a week prior >> with no problems. >> Jan 21 04:06:32 print kernel: eax: 00008000 ebx: c1dc83e0 ecx: >> c577da74 edx: c577da74 > > Bit 15 of %eax got flipped. The kernel indexed off it and oopsed. > > This is most likely a hardware failure. Yikes...I should have noticed that bit. You're certainly right. Guess I'm in the market for some RAM. Sorry for the noise. --Adam