[2.6.38.6] opteron server dies / how to debug call trace flood?

From: PaweÅ Sikora
Date: Mon May 23 2011 - 16:17:07 EST


Hi,

i'm currently testing the 2.6.38.6 with vserver/grsec on dual opteron
and it dies after some time. afaics on the remote ipmi console there's
a call trace flood without explicite kernel oops. machine respones
to pings but ssh is unavailable. here's the looged ipmi terminal:

(...)
Resource Manager: Runlevel has been reached...........................[ 3 ]

.------------------------< PLD Linux 2.99 (Th) >------------------------*
:|:
:|: Welcome to odra
:|: Mon May 23 2011 19:31:50
:|:
`---{ 0 users }---[ 2.6.38.6-8 ]---( x86_64 )------*


ttyS1 odra login: [ 3192.210129] Stack:
[ 3192.212164] Call Trace:
[ 3192.213016] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48 89 e5 65 48 03 04 25 08 b5 00 00 ba 00 01 00 00 f0 66 0f c1 10 38 f2 74 06 f3 90 8a 10 <eb> f6 c9 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48 89 e5
[ 3192.313455] Stack:
[ 3192.315494] Call Trace:
[ 3192.316350] Code: eb ad 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48 89 e5 65 48 03 04 25 08 b5 00 00 ba 00 01 00 00 f0 66 0f c1 10 38 f2 74 06 <f3> 90 8a 10 eb f6 c9 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00
[ 3192.416782] Stack:
[ 3192.418813] Call Trace:
[ 3192.419682] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48 89 e5 65 48 03 04 25 08 b5 00 00 ba 00 01 00 00 f0 66 0f c1 10 38 f2 74 06 f3 90 <8a> 10 eb f6 c9 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48
[ 3192.520109] Stack:
[ 3192.522135] Call Trace:
[ 3192.523015] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48 89 e5 65 48 03 04 25 08 b5 00 00 ba 00 01 00 00 f0 66 0f c1 10 38 f2 74 06 f3 90 <8a> 10 eb f6 c9 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48
[ 3192.626777] Stack:
[ 3192.628810] Call Trace:
[ 3192.629682] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48 89 e5 65 48 03 04 25 08 b5 00 00 ba 00 01 00 00 f0 66 0f c1 10 38 f2 74 06 f3 90 <8a> 10 eb f6 c9 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48
[ 3192.833431] Stack:
[ 3192.835461] Call Trace:
[ 3192.836350] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48 89 e5 65 48 03 04 25 08 b5 00 00 ba 00 01 00 00 f0 66 0f c1 10 38 f2 74 06 f3 90 <8a> 10 eb f6 c9 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48
[ 3192.936757] Stack:
[ 3192.938792] Call Trace:
[ 3192.939685] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48 89 e5 65 48 03 04 25 08 b5 00 00 ba 00 01 00 00 f0 66 0f c1 10 38 f2 74 06 f3 90 <8a> 10 eb f6 c9 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 c7 c0 d0 dd 00 00 48
(...)

is there any way to decrypt such flood?

BR,
PaweÅ.
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