This is a bug report about the VIA IDE driver. I'm forwarding it here because [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounced. ----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mail.linux-ide.org [24.219.123.215]: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from peter by llama.nslug.ns.ca with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15Ajcp-0005Jz-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:46:19 -0300 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:46:19 -0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: oopses with heavy disk activity with 2.4 on VIA Apollo (VT82C586B) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i From: Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I rescued a P5BV3+ (a super 7) mobo with a VIA MVP3 chipset from the trash (I know the guy who was tossing it, and he didn't say anything about it being damaged, just old). I moved my disks over from my old system, and compiled myself a kernel for it. It's got an AMD k6-2 at 350MHz, and the memory bus is running at 100MHz. I've run memtest86 for a long time (several complete passes, one with "extended tests") and found no errors. The problem is that all the 2.4 kernels I've tried oops under heavy disk load. A couple typical ones are like this: ksymoops 2.4.1 on i586 2.2.19-idepci. Options used -v /usr/src/linux/vmlinux (specified) -K (specified) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.5 (specified) -m /boot/System.map-2.4.5 (specified) No modules in ksyms, skipping objects No ksyms, skipping lsmod Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000848d Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: c010fb03 Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: *pde = 00000000 Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Oops: 0000 Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: CPU: 0 Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: EIP: 0010:[__wake_up+51/168] Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: EFLAGS: 00010017 Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: eax: c123fe10 ebx: 00008491 ecx: c8b6a6e4 edx: c123fdf8 Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: esi: c8b6a6e4 edi: 00008489 ebp: c8b87ef4 esp: c8b87ed8 Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Process bonnie++ (pid: 329, stackpage=c8b87000) Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Stack: c123fdf4 c8b6a6e4 c123fdcc c123fdf8 00000001 00000282 00000003 000020e9 Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: c0125481 c01e2134 c01e2304 00000002 00000000 c0126b34 c01e2134 00000000 Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: c01e230c 00000000 c13bee48 c0126c11 c01e2300 00000000 00000002 00000001 Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Call Trace: [reclaim_page+969/1016] [__alloc_pages_limit+108/148] [__alloc_pages+181/584] [generic_file_write+843/1336] [sys_write+142/196] [system_call+51/64] Jun 12 02:11:40 yeti kernel: Code: 8b 4f 04 8b 1b 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 51 31 c0 9c 5e fa c7 01 00 Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 Code; 00000000 Before first symbol 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; 00000000 Before first symbol 0: 8b 4f 04 mov 0x4(%edi),%ecx Code; 00000003 Before first symbol 3: 8b 1b mov (%ebx),%ebx Code; 00000005 Before first symbol 5: 8b 01 mov (%ecx),%eax Code; 00000007 Before first symbol 7: 85 45 fc test %eax,0xfffffffc(%ebp) Code; 0000000a Before first symbol a: 74 51 je 5d <_EIP+0x5d> 0000005d Before first symbol Code; 0000000c Before first symbol c: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax Code; 0000000e Before first symbol e: 9c pushf Code; 0000000f Before first symbol f: 5e pop %esi Code; 00000010 Before first symbol 10: fa cli Code; 00000011 Before first symbol 11: c7 01 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,(%ecx) Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000045bd Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: c010fb03 Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: *pde = 075d6067 Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Oops: 0000 Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: CPU: 0 Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: EIP: 0010:[__wake_up+51/168] Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: EFLAGS: 00010017 Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: eax: c123fe10 ebx: 000045c1 ecx: c8b6a6e4 edx: c111edf8 Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: esi: c111edf4 edi: 000045b9 ebp: c13c3f94 esp: c13c3f78 Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 3, stackpage=c13c3000) Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Stack: c111edcc c111edf4 00000000 c111edf8 00000001 00000282 00000003 000041c8 Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: c01259dc 00000004 00000000 00000000 0008e000 00000000 00000004 00000000 Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: 00002159 00000000 c0125ffd 00000004 00000000 c13c2000 c01bc391 c13c2239 Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Call Trace: [page_launder+1324/2096] [do_try_to_free_pages+29/88] [kswapd+83/224] [kernel_thread+40/56] Jun 12 04:06:20 yeti kernel: Code: 8b 4f 04 8b 1b 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 51 31 c0 9c 5e fa c7 01 00 Code; 00000000 Before first symbol 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; 00000000 Before first symbol 0: 8b 4f 04 mov 0x4(%edi),%ecx Code; 00000003 Before first symbol 3: 8b 1b mov (%ebx),%ebx Code; 00000005 Before first symbol 5: 8b 01 mov (%ecx),%eax Code; 00000007 Before first symbol 7: 85 45 fc test %eax,0xfffffffc(%ebp) Code; 0000000a Before first symbol a: 74 51 je 5d <_EIP+0x5d> 0000005d Before first symbol Code; 0000000c Before first symbol c: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax Code; 0000000e Before first symbol e: 9c pushf Code; 0000000f Before first symbol f: 5e pop %esi Code; 00000010 Before first symbol 10: fa cli Code; 00000011 Before first symbol 11: c7 01 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,(%ecx) This happens pretty consistently when I run 2.4.5. I haven't tried earlier 2.4 kernels, since I thought it would be unlikely to help. Luckily for me, 2.2 kernels seem to have no trouble, even when doing ultra DMA. I ran bonnie++ after running hdparm -m16 -u1 -d1 -c1 /dev/hdc, and it completed without causing any problems. Under 2.4.5, this always gave an oops pretty quickly, and the bonnie++ process would be in an un-killable disk-sleep. I had to reboot the machine to get rid of it. The precompiled Debian 2.2.19-idepci kernel says this on bootup: VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: FUJITSU MPG3307AT, ATA DISK drive hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR13.0A, ATA DISK drive hdd: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW DRIVE SW-212B, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: FUJITSU MPG3307AT, 29319MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=59570/16/63 hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR13.0A, 12416MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=25228/16/63 hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache My 2.4.5 kernel was compiled with gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease). (I'm running Debian woody.) This is really annoying, because I want to use 2.4 on this machine for DRI with the 3DFX Voodoo3 I just got for it, netfilter, and raid2... Oh well, I guess I'll survive with 2.2.19 until this gets figured out. I'm willing to do some testing on this, since I've got other computers that I can send email from if this one eats its disk. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE ----- End forwarded message ----- -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE - 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/