Hi All,
Have encountered a repeatable OOPS in 2.4.18 that does not occur in
2.4.19pre9 or pre10 (not sure about other preX patches).  Since this
seems fixed in upcoming 2.4.19, this may be moot; but reported here for
completeness.

The oops is triggered by large amounts of disk buffer page management
(e.g. tar xzf linux-2.4.18.tar.gz) in combination with a RealTek
RTL8139C ethernet controller chip PCI card installed in the system.
Interestingly, driver support for the 8139 need not be compiled into the
kernel; the mere presence of the card is sufficient, suggesting perhaps
a shared IRQ or other resource overlap.  More interestingly, the 8139
driver, when loaded, works even after OOPSes are triggered.

A representative OOPS in text is below, a few more GZIPped, and finally
dot.config.gz.

Hardware: Soltek DRV2, Athlon XP, IDE disk and CDROM on hda and hdb,
Radeon 8500LEE, SIIG USB2.0+IEEE1394 card via Hint PCI->PCI bridge.

Kris