Kernel panic while trying to crashdump with vxfs modules.

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Issue

  • Kernel panic while trying to crashdump via kdump

  • Kernel panic in kdump kernel with below traces

10:16:58 2009 <| Starting vxfs:  Starting up VxFS....
10:17:00 2009 <| general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP
10:17:00 2009 <| last sysfs file:
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb6/6-3/6-3:1.0/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/type
10:17:00 2009 <| Pid: 3487, comm: modprobe Tainted: P      2.6.18-128.el5 #1
10:17:00 2009 <| RIP:
0010:[<ffffffff8824a8a3>]  [<ffffffff8824a8a3>]
:vxfs:vx_osdep_init+0xce/0x1b0
10:17:01 2009 <| CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
10:17:01 2009 <| CR2: 00000000147cf3a0 CR3: 0000000001d77000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
10:17:01 2009 <| Process modprobe
(pid: 3487, threadinfo ffff8100033bc000, task ffff810006b780c0)
10:17:01 2009 <| Stack:  ffff8100033bdf18 ffffffff800631ac 0000000100000000 0000000000000000
10:17:01 2009 <|  [<ffffffff800631ac>] wait_for_completion+0x1f/0xa2

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 version 3
  • veritas filesystem

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