System crashed after general protection fault with instruction pointer at update_cfs_shares+0x25/0x170.

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Issue

  • System crashed, vmcore had following panic message
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:40/0000:40:02.2/0000:43:00.0/host3/rport-3:0-0/target3:0:0/3:0:0:21/state
CPU 10 
..
Pid: 15702, comm: coda Tainted: G        W  ---------------    2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64 #1 Dell Inc. PowerEdge R820/0YWR73
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81053495>]  [<ffffffff81053495>] update_cfs_shares+0x25/0x170
RSP: 0000:ffff8820b8843dc8  EFLAGS: 00010082
RAX: f7ffffff81e1e780 RBX: ffff884056beb538 RCX: 000000000000000a
RDX: ffff8820b8856680 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8820b88566e8
RBP: ffff8820b8843de8 R08: 0000000000989680 R09: 000000000098967f
R10: 00002bb4373b8d23 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8820b88566e8
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff884056beb500
FS:  00007f882bf0b700(0000) GS:ffff8820b8840000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f880c088000 CR3: 00000030567df000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
..
Process coda (pid: 15702, threadinfo ffff884057c8c000, task ffff884056beb500)
..
Call Trace:
 <IRQ> 
 [<ffffffff81053841>] task_tick_fair+0x101/0x160
 [<ffffffff810570e1>] scheduler_tick+0xc1/0x260
 [<ffffffff810a0b60>] ? tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xc0
 [<ffffffff8107cdbe>] update_process_times+0x6e/0x90
 [<ffffffff810a0bc6>] tick_sched_timer+0x66/0xc0
 [<ffffffff8109535e>] __run_hrtimer+0x8e/0x1a0
 [<ffffffff81012a69>] ? read_tsc+0x9/0x20
 [<ffffffff81095706>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xe6/0x250
 [<ffffffff814f235b>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x9b
 [<ffffffff8100bb93>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • kernel-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.
  • Dell PowerEdge R820

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