Kernel panic on divide-by-zero in get_dirty_limits
Issue
- Kernel panicked on divide-by-zero error in
get_dirty_limits
. Call trace reads similar to:
divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP
[...]
RIP [<ffffffff81125211>] get_dirty_limits+0x1d1/0x2f0
RSP <ffff880187c83a08>
or
#5 [ffff880c1cd67950] do_divide_error at ffffffff8100cfff
#6 [ffff880c1cd679f0] divide_error at ffffffff8100be7b
[exception RIP: get_dirty_limits+193]
#7 [ffff880c1cd67b00] balance_dirty_pages at ffffffff8112568f
#8 [ffff880c1cd67c20] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr at ffffffff81125a64
#9 [ffff880c1cd67c30] do_wp_page at ffffffff8113ae2b
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-2.6.32-220.4.1.el6
- kernel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6
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