System crashed after soft lockup with page_lock_anon_vma call traces

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Issue

  • System crashed with following messages

    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 10s! [kjournald:6199]
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel: CPU 5:
    ...
    ...
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel: Pid: 6199, comm: kjournald Tainted: PF     2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 #1
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80064ba4>]  [<ffffffff80064ba4>] .text.lock.spinlock+0x2/0x30
    ...
    ...
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel: Call Trace:
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff80021ee0>] page_lock_anon_vma+0x1d/0x26
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff8003bc1b>] page_referenced+0x43/0xe4
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff800c429b>] shrink_active_list+0x192/0x426
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff80012be0>] shrink_zone+0xd8/0x11c
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff800c5536>] try_to_free_pages+0x197/0x2b9
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff8009df7c>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff8000f1e9>] __alloc_pages+0x1cb/0x2ce
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff80023487>] alloc_page_interleave+0x3d/0x74
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff80025a0c>] find_or_create_page+0x35/0x75
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff800195e5>] __getblk+0x105/0x235
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff8803a0c5>] :jbd:journal_get_descriptor_buffer+0x30/0x7f
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff88035aa0>] :jbd:journal_commit_transaction+0x74a/0x10ca
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff8003d6aa>] lock_timer_base+0x1b/0x3c
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff88039419>] :jbd:kjournald+0xc1/0x213
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff8009df7c>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff88039358>] :jbd:kjournald+0x0/0x213
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff8009dd64>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0xc4
    Sep 21 06:31:00 host kernel:  [<ffffffff80032576>] kthread+0xfe/0x132
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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