ext3 involved in kernel panic in 2.6.13?

[Maurice Volaski]

>  > Dual Opteron system running ext3 atop drbd (network RAID) devices,
>>  which, in turn, are atop LVM logical volumes. The underlying device
>>  is hardware SCSI RAID via a LSILogic HBA. The kernel is vanilla
>>  2.6.13 on a Gentoo-based system.
>>
>>  A panic occurred, which contains references to ext3 code.
>>
>>  I'm not sure how others manage to get these typed out, but I'm
>>  manually typing it from what's on the monitor:
>
>   There should be more in the logs (just before the Call Trace:). Didn't
>you capture also that information? Without it it is rather hard to find
>out what was happening.

Unfortunately, crash information never appears in regular system log, 
at least using the metalog logging program. I think I would have to 
configure the netconsole to do that.

>  > Call Trace: <IRQ> <ffffffff802820df>{i8042_interrupt+111}
>>  <ffffffff80200080>{commit_timeout+0}
>>  <ffffffff8013f143>{run_timer_softirq+387}
>>  <ffffffff8013b111>{__do_softirq+113}
>>  <ffffffff8010ee63>{call_softirq+31} <ffffffff80110a55>{do_softirq+53}
>>  <ffffffff8010e5c8>{apic_timer_interrupt+132} <EOI>
>>  <ffffffff801fb8a6>{do_get_write_access+118}
>>  <ffffffff801fb88e>{do_get_write_access+94} <ffffffff80185d1f>{__getblk+47}
>>  <ffffffff80195170>{filldir+0}
>>  <ffffffff801fbf69>{journal_get_write_access+41}
>>  <ffffffff801ec41c>{ext3_reserve_inode+write+76}
>>  <ffffffff80195170>{filldir+0}
>>  <ffffffff801ec4d8>{ext3_mark_inode_dirty+56}
>>  <ffffffff801fa9e5>{journal_start_229}
>>  <ffffffff801ee571>{ext3_dirty_inode+113}
>>  <ffffffff801a5604>{__mark_inode_dirty+52}
>>  <ffffffff8019bd2b>{update_atime+123} <ffffffff80195016>{vfs_readdir+166}
>>  <ffffffff801952e2>{syst_getdents+130} <ffffffff8019465e>{sys_fcntl+830}
>>  <ffffffff8010dc46>{system_call+126}
>>
>>  Code: 8b 40 18 48 c1 e0 07 48 8b 98 08 58 5b 80 4c 01 e3 48 89 df
>>  RIP <ffffffff8012f369>{try_to_wake_up+57} RSP <ffff810004827e88>
>>  <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
>
>								Bye
>									Honza
>--
>Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
>SuSE CR Labs


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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski at aecom.yu.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University