RHEL6.4: System crashed with error message "kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:1393!"

Issue

• While loading a process, the system crashed with the below log

Out of memory: Kill process 20815 (oom01) score 815 or sacrifice child
Killed process 20815, UID 0, (oom01) total-vm:6295560kB, anon-rss:1706808kB, file-rss:12kB
mapcount 2 page_mapcount 4
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kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:1393!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/0000:02:03.0/local_cpus
CPU 0 
Modules linked in: nls_utf8 ext3 jbd snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_dummy tun ext2 autofs4 sunrpc iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 uinput ppdev parport_pc parport snd_ens1371 snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc e1000 microcode vmware_balloon sg i2c_piix4 i2c_core shpchp ext4 jbd2 mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom mptspi mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_spi pata_acpi ata_generic ata_piix dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: speedstep_lib]

Pid: 21754, comm: thp03 Not tainted 2.6.32-279.46.1.el6.x86_64 #1 VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81170f52>]  [<ffffffff81170f52>] split_huge_page+0x7b2/0x850
RSP: 0018:ffff880035ec7bc8  EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000004 RBX: ffff88007bf29d00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000046 RDI: 0000000000000246
RBP: ffff880035ec7c98 R08: 000000000001e4f1 R09: 00000000fffffffe
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88007a0b6da0
R13: fffffffffffffff2 R14: ffffea00011d4000 R15: ffffea00011d4000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880002200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 000000358da1ea50 CR3: 0000000001a85000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process thp03 (pid: 21754, threadinfo ffff880035ec6000, task ffff88007ccf8080)
Stack:
 000000000000001e 0000002881127481 ffff88003741a080 ffff88003741a080
<d> ffffea0001933d38 ffff88007a0b6da8 ffff880035ec7c18 ffffffff81166fe0
<d> ffff88007a0b6dc0 ffff88000001af00 ffff880035ec7c48 000000028112675d
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81166fe0>] ? mem_cgroup_get_reclaim_stat_from_page+0x20/0x70
 [<ffffffff81168731>] ? __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common+0x81/0x300
 [<ffffffff81171071>] __split_huge_page_pmd+0x81/0xc0
 [<ffffffff811392c4>] unmap_vmas+0xa74/0xc30
 [<ffffffff8113ea57>] exit_mmap+0x87/0x170
 [<ffffffff8106751c>] mmput+0x6c/0x120
 [<ffffffff8106ed2b>] exit_mm+0x12b/0x180
 [<ffffffff8106f0df>] do_exit+0x15f/0x870
 [<ffffffff8106f848>] do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8106f8d7>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
 [<ffffffff8100b072>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: b0 4c 89 ee e8 90 92 fe ff e9 8f f9 ff ff 41 8b 56 0c 8b 75 8c 48 c7 c7 18 38 7a 81 31 c0 83 c2 01 e8 50 8d 37 00 e9 e0 f9 ff ff <0f> 0b eb fe 0f 0b 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 eb f6 41 8b 4e 0c 8b 
RIP  [<ffffffff81170f52>] split_huge_page+0x7b2/0x850
 RSP <ffff880035ec7bc8>