Hi Ron, Any chance you can re-create the problem on an EXT3 (or 4) FS. I would get away from reiserfs.
A related earlier issue (non s390x) reiserfs_cut_from_item http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0102.1/1435.html Gerard C. Shockley Boston University gsh...@bu.edu 617.353.9898 (w) 617.353.6171 (f) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Foster at Baldor-IS Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:53 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Oops message in /var/log/messages Everyone, This is something I have never ran into. It is coming out of a system running SAP. (Our main test system.) # uname -a Linux bus0104 2.6.16.60-0.34-default #1 SMP Fri Jan 16 14:59:01 UTC 2009 s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux Any ideas: Feb 4 10:05:45 bus0104g syslog-ng[1630]: STATS: dropped 0 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address fffffffe76ffc000 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: Oops: 0038 [#1] Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: CPU: 0 Not tainted Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: Process BTS_04_BTC_W19 (pid: 14622, task: 00000001104e0628, ksp: 000000013328b668) Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: Krnl PSW : 0704200180000000 000000000033662a (memcpy+0x16/0x28) Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: Krnl GPRS: fffffffe76ffcd28 0000000000000010 000000017d7b2018 fffffffe76ffcd28 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: 0000000000000010 0000000014aaad40 ffffffffd55555d1 0000000000000000 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: 000000000f07eea0 0000000000000001 000000013328b988 000000017db23240 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: 000000017d7b2018 0000000000000010 000000018091a9b4 000000013328b500 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: Krnl Code: a8 c0 00 00 a7 14 ff fe eb cd f0 78 00 04 07 fe 07 07 b9 04 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: Call Trace: Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: ([<0000000180945734>] internal_insert_key+0x19c/0x1ac [reiserfs]) Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<00000001809478cc>] balance_internal+0x4ac/0x1f78 [reiserfs] Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<000000018091dff6>] do_balance+0x361a/0x3700 [reiserfs] Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<000000018094e178>] reiserfs_cut_from_item+0x12b4/0x1400 [reiserfs] Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<000000018091f4c4>] reiserfs_unlink+0x76c/0x8d8 [reiserfs] Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<000000000024e354>] sys_unlink+0x1f0/0x300 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<0000000000115da4>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<0000020001439702>] 0x20001439702 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: Badness in do_exit at kernel/exit.c:842 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: 000000013328b090 0400000000000001 000000003328b090 000000013328b1a0 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: 040000013328b080 0400000000000004 0400000000000004 0000000000105b42 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: 0000000000000000 ffffffffd55555d1 000000013328b458 00000000000001c0 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: 000000013328b458 0000000100000008 000000000000000e 000000013328b188 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: 00000000004a9520 0000000000105b42 000000013328b110 000000013328b150 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: Call Trace: Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: ([<0000000000105b5e>] dump_stack+0x2aa/0x364) Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<000000000014f9c2>] do_exit+0x62/0x1510 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<0000000000104cb2>] die+0x10a/0x10c Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<0000000000102248>] do_dat_exception+0x754/0x858 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<0000000000115daa>] sysc_return+0x0/0x10 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<000000000033662a>] memcpy+0x16/0x28 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: ([<0000000180945734>] internal_insert_key+0x19c/0x1ac [reiserfs]) Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<00000001809478cc>] balance_internal+0x4ac/0x1f78 [reiserfs] Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<000000018091dff6>] do_balance+0x361a/0x3700 [reiserfs] Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<000000018094e178>] reiserfs_cut_from_item+0x12b4/0x1400 [reiserfs] Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<000000018091f4c4>] reiserfs_unlink+0x76c/0x8d8 [reiserfs] Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<000000000024e354>] sys_unlink+0x1f0/0x300 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<0000000000115da4>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: [<0000020001439702>] 0x20001439702 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390