How to look at a Bad pagetable panic on a x86_64 system.
Issue
- The system displays a message containing “Bad pagetable:”
- The bad page table panic is caused by a Page Fault Exception when the CPU detects one of the reserve bits set in a page directory.
a.out: Corrupted page table at address 2ab3401d3010
PGD 1102b1067 PUD 10f109067 PMD 10f0fc067 PTE 800040010d2b1067
Bad pagetable: 000f [1] SMP
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Pid: 3801, comm: a.out Tainted: G -------------------- 2.6.18-371.6.1.el5 #1
RIP: 0033:[<0000000000400624>] [<0000000000400624>]
RSP: 002b:00007ffffcfbb380 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 00002ab3401d3010 RBX: 0000003973a1cbc0 RCX: 0000000000600b25
RDX: 0000003973f54970 RSI: 0000000000600b26 RDI: 0000003973f536a0
RBP: 00007ffffcfbb390 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffffcfbb470 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00002ab3401d26e0(0000) GS:ffffffff80436000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00002ab3401d3010 CR3: 000000011ced3000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process a.out (pid: 3801, threadinfo ffff810104330000, task ffff81011fa827b0)
RIP [<0000000000400624>]
RSP <00007ffffcfbb380>
crash>
Environment
- Architecture x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - 7
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