Kernel panic with "kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c:314!"

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Issue

  • Kernel panic with following trace
[238762.875044] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[238762.875060] kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c:314!
[238762.875066] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
[238762.875070] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
[238762.875075] Modules linked in: ext4 mbcache jbd2 sg 8021q garp stp mrp llc bonding nx_crypto pseries_rng ses enclosure uinput binfmt_misc xfs sr_mod cdrom dm_service_time sd_mod lpfc bnx2x ipr libata crc_t10dif crct10dif_common mdio scsi_transport_fc ptp pps_core scsi_tgt libcrc32c dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod
[238762.875138] CPU: 56 PID: 69167 Comm: gserver Not tainted 3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64 #1
[238762.875146] task: c000003e529874a0 ti: c000003e3ee64000 task.ti: c000003e3ee64000
[238762.875150] NIP: c00000000008340c LR: c0000000000833f8 CTR: 0000000000000000
[238762.875156] REGS: c000003e3ee67940 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64)
[238762.875160] MSR: 8000000000021032 <SF,ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR: 48004848  XER: 20000000
[238762.875170] CFAR: c000000000084a00 SOFTE: 0 
                GPR00: 0000000048004844 c000003e3ee67bc0 c00000000130ae00 0000000000000001 
                GPR04: 0000000000000033 0000000000000000 0000000005005800 0000000005000080 
                GPR08: 00000000000ff290 ffffffffffffffef 00000000d1fff054 80000000152260a8 
                GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000000007b2f800 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 
                GPR16: c0000000012aeae0 c000000001494028 c000000001388278 c0000064ad334000 
                GPR20: 0000000000000001 000001001a859c88 0000000000000300 000000000002fa8b 
                GPR24: ffffff8ae9fd1ff1 00002fa8b001a859 0000000000000085 0000000000000006 
                GPR28: 0000000000000203 00001c1800886c01 c0000040ba7080d0 00110d802ffff383 
[238762.875239] NIP [c00000000008340c] .pSeries_lpar_hpte_updatepp+0x5c/0x90
[238762.875244] LR [c0000000000833f8] .pSeries_lpar_hpte_updatepp+0x48/0x90
[238762.875247] Call Trace:
[238762.875254] [c000003e3ee67bc0] [00003fd7dd8e9628] 0x3fd7dd8e9628 (unreliable)
[238762.875262] [c000003e3ee67c30] [c000000000066908] .__hash_page_thp+0x1b8/0x490
[238762.875269] [c000003e3ee67d40] [c000000000056bc4] .hash_page+0x194/0x770
[238762.875275] [c000003e3ee67e30] [c00000000000954c] do_hash_page+0x4c/0x58
[238762.875279] Instruction dump:
[238762.875282] f8010010 f821ff91 e9460040 7d295078 79263e24 7cc64378 4800153d 60000000 
[238762.875290] 2fa3fff9 419e0030 3123ffff 7c691910 <0b030000> 38600000 38210070 e8010010 
[238762.875303] ---[ end trace 8414a5acdc60f8ab ]---

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
  • Kernel-3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64
  • IBM pSeries
  • IBM PowerVM

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