RHEL5: System crash under prune_one_dentry or prune_dcache from list corruption
Issue
- System crashed under call to prune_one_dentry
- System logged list corruption before crashing under prune_dcache
PID: 784 TASK: ffff81091f6f9830 CPU: 4 COMMAND: "kswapd0"
#0 [ffff81091ff75f20] crash_nmi_callback at ffffffff8007c47b
#1 [ffff81091ff75f40] do_nmi at ffffffff800658f7
#2 [ffff81091ff75f50] nmi at ffffffff80064ecf
[exception RIP: prune_one_dentry+40]
RIP: ffffffff800f13ce RSP: ffff81049f7d3d40 RFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8105b9b9ea98 RCX: ffff8105b9b9eab0
RDX: ffff8105a0a05ab0 RSI: 0000000000000282 RDI: ffff8105b9b9ea98
RBP: ffff8105b9b9ea98 R8: ffff8104c0682300 R9: 0000000000000246
R10: ffff810599169228 R11: ffff8104c0682300 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000007 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000100
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
--- <NMI exception stack> ---
#3 [ffff81049f7d3d40] prune_one_dentry at ffffffff800f13ce
#4 [ffff81049f7d3d58] prune_dcache at ffffffff8002eb1a
#5 [ffff81049f7d3d88] shrink_dcache_memory at ffffffff800f1435
#6 [ffff81049f7d3d98] shrink_slab at ffffffff8003f831
#7 [ffff81049f7d3dd8] kswapd at ffffffff80057f7f
#8 [ffff81049f7d3ee8] kthread at ffffffff80032c59
#9 [ffff81049f7d3f48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8005dfc1
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- seen on kernel 2.6.18-398.el5
- NFS client
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