Re: Oops in IO_APIC with linux-2.2.15pre17 on dual-pentium-III

From: Winfried Magerl (winfried.magerl@mch.sbs.de)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 10:50:19 EST


On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:20:43PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> AFAICS the sequence of assembler instructions is impossible:
> eax: 9
> ebx 801fe8cc

Maybe it's a typo. I had to write down the screenoutput by hand.
>From another crash:

eax: 0000000b ebx: 801fe8e4 ecx: 0000c926 edx: 801ea000
esi: ffffe010 edi: ffffe000 ebp: 801ebfa0 esp: 801ebf78

> the faulting instruction is
>
> > 0: 8b 13 movl (%ebx),%edx <=====
> i.e. load an integer from (%ebx)
>
> and the CPU failed with:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000009
>
> but that's eax!
>
> I doubt that you are overclocking your computer, but could you check your
> power supply, cabling, cooling,...?

The problem is much greater. We have three such servers which crashes
randomly. Same hardware, no overclocking. Unfortunatly I have only
the output of this server.

> And check your kernel log: oops always on CPU1, or on both cpus?
> What about these messages, is that common with eepro cards?

For the two Oops I had written down: CPU1
I connect serial consoles on the other too server to see if they reason
for the crash isn the same.

> >>>>>
> kernel: eepro100.c:v1.09l 8/7/99 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
> kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> kernel: You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips
> kernel: eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0xb8895000,
> 00:90:27:9B:D2:A1, IRQ 9.
> <<<<<<<<<

I see this message "Uhhuh. NMI received." also on another server. Randomly
generated when loading the eepro100-module. I give 2.2.16-pre3 a try bur
unfortunaltly the eepro100 failes with:

messages:May 17 18:07:09 proxy8 kernel: eth0: card reports no RX buffers.
messages:May 17 18:07:09 proxy8 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources.
messages:May 17 18:07:09 proxy8 kernel: eth0: card reports no RX buffers.
messages:May 17 18:07:09 proxy8 kernel: eth0: card reports no resources.
messages:May 17 18:07:09 proxy8 kernel: eth0: card reports no RX buffers.
[....]

At the moment we want to give 3com a chance. But I have no idea if it is
a driver-problem or a hardware-problem (with random crashes on several
servers with the same hardware).

regards

        winfried

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