Hi! On our file server we have the following problem (the full dmesg output is available at http://www-ds.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~jplatte/dmesg.txt ):
Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000100108 RIP: [<ffffffff802ec036>] keyring_destroy+0x32/0x96 PGD 195d33067 PUD 193202067 PMD 0 Oops: 0002 [1] SMP CPU 0 Modules linked in: ppdev lp nfs nfsd exportfs lockd nfs_acl sunrpc button ac battery ipv6 quota_v1 dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_mod loop tsdev parport_pc parport floppy psmouse pcspkr serio_raw i2c_i801 i2c_core shpchp pci_hotplug e752x_edac edac_mc evdev sg ext3 jbd mbcache ide_cd cdrom sd_mod piix megaraid_mbox scsi_mod megaraid_mm generic ide_core ehci_hcd uhci_hcd tg3 thermal processor fan Pid: 14, comm: events/0 Not tainted 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802ec036>] [<ffffffff802ec036>] keyring_destroy+0x32/0x96 RSP: 0018:ffff8101f7cd7e30 EFLAGS: 00010217 RAX: 0000000000200200 RBX: ffff81009c324200 RCX: ffff81009c324278 RDX: 0000000000100100 RSI: ffffffffffffffff RDI: ffffffff804629e0 RBP: ffff81009c324208 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: ffff8101f4a55040 R10: ffff8101f7cce830 R11: 000000000000561c R12: ffff8101f8cad8c0 R13: 0000000000000282 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff802eb97d FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff80521000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000100108 CR3: 00000001e0027000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process events/0 (pid: 14, threadinfo ffff8101f7cd6000, task ffff8101f7cce830) Stack: ffff81009c324200 ffff81009c324208 ffff8101f8cad8c0 ffffffff802eba52 0000000000000000 ffffffff80462920 ffffffff80462928 ffffffff8024947a ffffffffffffff56 ffff8101f8cad8c0 ffffffff80245e7b ffff8101f8c7dd40 Call Trace: [<ffffffff802eba52>] key_cleanup+0xd5/0xf2 [<ffffffff8024947a>] run_workqueue+0x94/0xe5 [<ffffffff80245e7b>] worker_thread+0x0/0x122 [<ffffffff80245f6b>] worker_thread+0xf0/0x122 [<ffffffff8027d27d>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe [<ffffffff8023055a>] kthread+0xd4/0x107 [<ffffffff80259360>] child_rip+0xa/0x12 [<ffffffff80230486>] kthread+0x0/0x107 [<ffffffff80259356>] child_rip+0x0/0x12 Code: 48 89 42 08 48 89 10 48 c7 41 08 00 02 20 00 48 c7 43 78 00 RIP [<ffffffff802ec036>] keyring_destroy+0x32/0x96 RSP <ffff8101f7cd7e30> CR2: 0000000000100108 <3>BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff802a3fec>] softlockup_tick+0xdb/0xed [<ffffffff802881df>] update_process_times+0x42/0x68 [<ffffffff8026cbd8>] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0x23/0x47 [<ffffffff8026d2cc>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x41/0x47 [<ffffffff8025904a>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x6c <EOI> [<ffffffff8025c11d>] __write_lock_failed+0x9/0x20 [<ffffffff8025e244>] __down_write_nested+0x12/0x9a [<ffffffff8025e915>] .text.lock.spinlock+0x11/0x8a [<ffffffff802ebf3a>] keyring_publish_name+0x38/0x92 [<ffffffff802ebfa7>] keyring_instantiate+0x13/0x18 [<ffffffff802eb1f2>] __key_instantiate_and_link+0x46/0xc5 [<ffffffff802ec7c2>] keyring_alloc+0x46/0x5e [<ffffffff802ede3d>] alloc_uid_keyring+0x3d/0xa6 [<ffffffff8025cc4e>] thread_return+0x0/0xe7 [<ffffffff80288581>] alloc_uid+0xd7/0x17e [<ffffffff8028ae65>] set_user+0xf/0x97 [<ffffffff8028c985>] sys_setresuid+0x15e/0x23b [<ffffffff802584d6>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 The server is a Fujitsu-Siemens RX-300 S2 with 8 GB RAM and this is the second kernel oops this week. We are using the current stable debian kernel (Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 21 14:29:38 UTC 2007 x86_64). Currently, I don't know how to reproduce the oops and compiling and testing a newer kernel is currently not possible. Can this oops be caused by a known and already fixed problem in a newer kernel versions? In this case I would submit a bug to the Debian BTS. Otherwise what can I do to further reproduce and debug this oops? regards, Jörg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/