Hi, For few months I am running XFS CVS kernels (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/). Up till now i haven't faced any generic 2.4 issues. Problems began while XFS moved to 2.4.5 , same thing (i believe) i observed with both 2.4.6pre kernels. Linux-xfs people suggested to mail linux-kernel, so.. take a look please. My machine is Celeron 366 (Mendocino) 128MB RAM, PIIX4E, PDC20262, HPT366, with 6 ide disks (4 at PDC, 1 at PIIX4E and 1 at HPT366) and DM9102 Ethernet. RedHat 6.2 with some vital updates for 2.4 kernels... Sorry for not-complete backtrace (no serial console at the moment - rewritten manually). Stuff you can find below was observed on 2.4.6-pre2-xfs dated at 06/09. Machine crashed just before init run gettys (first output, no bt), the second time it crashed after being up for 3 minutes ca.. ------ Scheduling in interrupt kernel BUG at sched.c:709! invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0111341>] EFLAGS: 00010092 eax: 0000001b ebx: 00000000 ecx: c76a4000 edx: 00000001 esi: ffffffff edi: c01104f4 ebp: c12f9e04 esp: c12f9db4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process init (pid: 1, stackpage=c12f9000) Stack c024aab4 c024ab56 000002c5 c12f8000 00000000 c01104f4 c12f9e74 c12f8000 c014ffd6 c7fa9460 c6c38bc0 c12f9e24 c0150200 c12f9e74 c12f9e80 c12f8000 c014ff17 00000000 c12f8000 c0106c48 c881818c c0106c05 c76b41a0 c76b4228 Call Trace: [<c01104f4>] [<c014ffd6>] [<c0150200>] [<c014ff17>] [<c0106c48>] [<c 881818c>] [<c0106c05>] [<c881818c>] [<c881818c>] [<c011a46c>] [<c0119d66>] [<c01171e2>] [<c01171 04>] [<c0116edc>] [<c0107fe8>] [<c0106bd8>] [<c0120018>] [<c011e983>] [<c011232f>] [<c0112c4e>] [<c01057 d4>] [<c0106af3>] Code: 0f 0b 8d 65 bc 5b 5e 5f 89 ec 5d c3 8d 76 00 55 89 e5 83 ec Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing ------ ------ Scheduling in interrupt kernel BUG at sched.c:709! Entering kdb (current=0xc1b30000, pid 1822) Oops: invalid operand due to oops @ 0xc01118d1 eax = 0x0000001b ebx = 0x00000000 ecx = 0xc75e2000 edx = 0x00000001 esi = 0xffffffff edi = 0x00000246 esp = 0xc1b31ea0 eip = 0xc01118d1 ebp = 0xc1b31ef0 xss = 0x00000018 xcs = 0x00000010 eflags = 0x00010086 xds = 0x00000018 xes = 0x00000018 origeax = 0xffffffff ®s = 0xc1b31e6c kdb> bt EBP EIP Function(args) 0xc1b31ef0 0xc01118d1 schedule+0x421 (0xc12e1d40, 0xa490, 0x0, 0xc12e1c00, 0x246 ) kernel .text 0xc0100000 0xc01114b0 0xc01118e0 0xc1b31f44 0xc0106cd9 reschedule+0x5 (0xc12e1c00) kernel .text 0xc0100000 0xc0106cd4 0xc0106ce0 0xc011aa52 timer_bh+0x226 kernel .text 0xc0100000 0xc011a82c 0xc011aa90 0xc1b31f74 0xc0117828 bh_action+0x1c (0x0) kernel .text 0xc0100000 0xc011780c 0xc0117844 0xc1b31f8c 0xc0117745 tasklet_hi_action+0x81 (0xc034fd60) kernel .text 0xc0100000 0xc01176c4 0xc0117774 0xc1b31fa4 0xc01174fc do_softirq+0x4c kernel .text 0xc0100000 0xc01174b0 0xc011752c 0xc1b31fbc 0xc01084d3 do_IRQ+0x9f kernel .text 0xc0100000 0xc0108434 0xc01084e4 kdb> lsmod Module Size modstruct Used by cls_u32 5705 0xc881b000 1 (autoclean) sch_tbf 3257 0xc8819000 3 sch_cbq 13053 0xc8814000 1 nls_iso8859-1 3536 0xc8812000 1 kdb> ------ Hope that it helps... Cheers, Krzysztof PS. please CC, ain't subscriber. - 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/