Public bug reported:

Recently I have got a VIA Epia mini-itx motherboard.

Randomly it drop in kernel panic, but when many connections from the clients 
are established, 
kernel panic becames more frequent and the machine becomes useless.

My attempts were as follows :

- Kernels releases from 2.6.16 to 2.6.24  ---> No difference
- Kernel option "ACPI=off"  ---> Good improvement
- Either on Debian and Ubuntu Server  ---> No difference
- Blacklist unnecessary modules   ---> Seems a little improvement
- Two different memory bank with long memory tests performed  ---> No difference
- MS Windows with hardware stress sofware  ---> No problems

After a period of observation and some empiric tests I got the
impression that the smb protocol is involved.

My interesting empiric tests were as follow :

with "socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192
SO_SNDBUF=8192" in smb.conf

  Kernel panic always happens :

  - When I put a directory with many files in a samba share using Ubuntu or 
Windows
  - When I copy a single file beginning from 10 Mb

  Kernel panic doesn't happens :

  - When I put a file or a directory with many files with ssh protocol using 
Nautilus
  - When I copy a file filled with zeroes using smb protocol


Without "socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 
SO_SNDBUF=8192" in smb.conf

  Kernel panic always happens :

  - When I copy directly from another PC to the Via Epia using smb protocol a 
file or a directory through third computer
    with Ubuntu, with Windows no problem.
  
  Kernel panic rarely happens :

  - during normal use


Kernel Panic snapshot attached


My lspci output

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge 
[KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UniChrome Pro IGP 
(rev 01)


My cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
cpu family      : 6
model           : 10
model name      : VIA Esther processor 1500MHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 1500.099
cache size      : 128 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov pat 
clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm nx up pni est tm2 rng rng_en ace ace_en ace2 
ace2_en phe phe_en pmm pmm_en
bogomips        : 3001.85
clflush size    : 64


My lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  272804  12 
iptable_filter          3840  0 
ip_tables              14820  1 iptable_filter
x_tables               16132  1 ip_tables
aes_i586               33536  0 
dm_crypt               15236  0 
dm_mod                 62532  1 dm_crypt
lp                     12324  0 
loop                   19076  0 
evdev                  12928  0 
parport_pc             36644  1 
parport                37704  2 lp,parport_pc
serio_raw               7940  0 
psmouse                40208  0 
i2c_viapro              9876  0 
i2c_core               24832  1 i2c_viapro
pcspkr                  4224  0 
shpchp                 34452  0 
pci_hotplug            30880  1 shpchp
via_agp                11136  1 
agpgart                34760  1 via_agp
reiserfs              238720  5 
usb_storage            73408  0 
libusual               18980  1 usb_storage
sg                     36496  0 
sd_mod                 30720  7 
pata_via               13316  6 
ehci_hcd               38412  0 
uhci_hcd               27152  0 
ata_generic             8324  0 
pata_acpi               8320  0 
usbcore               146028  5 usb_storage,libusual,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
libata                159344  3 pata_via,ata_generic,pata_acpi
scsi_mod              151180  4 usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,libata
r8169                  32772  0 
fuse                   50580  1 
vesafb                  8964  1 
fbcon                  42656  70 
tileblit                3456  1 fbcon
font                    9472  1 fbcon
bitblit                 6784  1 fbcon
softcursor              3072  1 bitblit

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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kernel panic - BUG in sched.c using SMB protocol
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234866
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