From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:47:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:47:33 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:28682 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:47:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:47:09 +0000 From: Philipp Rumpf To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Mark Hindley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.0 kernel paging error Message-ID: <20010110184709.F21944@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3A5C93E9.A96EF8AE@innominate.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3A5C93E9.A96EF8AE@innominate.de>; from phillips@innominate.de on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 05:55:05PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 05:55:05PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Mark Hindley wrote: > > I am running 2.4.0 final. I got the following failed paging request which > > produced a complete freeze. > > > > As you can see it was precipitated by cron starting to run some > > housekeeping stuff overnight. > > > > Has anyone else had prblems? > > It looks real. It was executing this line of clear_inode in fs/inode.c: > > 380 if (inode->i_sb && inode->i_sb->s_op && inode->i_sb->s_op->clear_inode) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > and it blew up here -----> > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c4870840 I'm pretty sure this is a vmalloc/module address, which would mean ->s_op points to a module that has been unloaded. This sounds consistent with the "cron starting to run some housekeeping stuff" above. Mark, which file systems are you using ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/