Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:17:59 +0400 | From | Oleg Drokin <> | Subject | Re: Undo aic7xxx changes (now rc7+aic20030603) |
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Hello!
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:04:08AM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > No, it did crashed in allocation code (you skipped one trace line): > > Jun 5 16:53:55 admin kernel: Call Trace: [__kmem_cache_alloc+107/304] > > [kmem_cache_grow+508/624] > > [__kmem_cache_alloc+125/304]+[get_mem_for_virtual_node+87/224] > > [fix_nodes+198/1008] > > > > And the EIP is in kmem_cache_alloc_batch, sounds like it tripped on bad > > pointer or something like this. So something is corrupting slab lists it > > seems. > I agree with you. Only problem is: how can I find out what caused the problem.
Probably by careful code observations.
> The only thing I can tell is that the box never hangs when using only HDs on > the aic & 3ware controllers. As soon as I begin to use a SDLT drive on aic > things get fishy.
You do not have reiserfs filesystem on a tape drive, right? ;) But thhat reduces the region to review to parts thqt deal with tape devices and tape-specific stuff, it seems.
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