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FS#17917 - [kernel26] Drive filling up with errors in logs

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kiss Ákos (akosch) - Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 12:35 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Monday, 25 January 2010, 08:57 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture i686
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
My kernel.log (and messages.log) get flooded with this (from dmesg) until my drive is full:

bad: scheduling from the idle thread!
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P W 2.6.32-ARCH #1
Call Trace:
[<c103245c>] ? dequeue_task_idle+0x1c/0x30
[<c102d455>] ? dequeue_task+0xc5/0x150
[<c102d4fd>] ? deactivate_task+0x1d/0x30
[<c12b6c2d>] ? schedule+0x3ad/0xa30
[<c105de73>] ? hrtimer_forward+0x163/0x1b0
[<c1069d95>] ? tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0x135/0x160
[<c100293d>] ? cpu_idle+0xcd/0xe0
[<c13e285d>] ? start_kernel+0x335/0x33a
[<c13e2366>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x190


Additional info:

I'm using the 2.6.32.3-1 kernel from x86/core.

Steps to reproduce:

No idea... has no symptoms except the above messages.

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Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Monday, 25 January 2010, 08:57 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  Not reproducible.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 16:01 GMT
  • Field changed: Summary ([kernel] Drive filling up with errors in logs → [kernel26] Drive filling up with errors in logs)
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Waiting on Response)
  • Field changed: Category (Packages: Core → Upstream Bugs)
  • Task assigned to Thomas Bächler (brain0), Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Please report this with some more details (like modules loaded, a complete dmesg, firmwares loaded, etc) to bugzilla.kernel.org. Thanks.
Comment by Kiss Ákos (akosch) - Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 17:43 GMT
Ok, will do that. What category would you report this in btw?
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 19:49 GMT
Try with "Process Management"
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 21 January 2010, 05:56 GMT
I am not sure, but maybe, is related to this and will be fixed in 2.6.32.5 [#1]

[#1] http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/74176/ | sched: Fix task priority bug
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Friday, 22 January 2010, 19:29 GMT
cut-off repeated messages.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 25 January 2010, 02:10 GMT
2.6.32.5 is on [core] is finally fixed?
Comment by Kiss Ákos (akosch) - Monday, 25 January 2010, 08:30 GMT
Didn't encounter this bug since the initial report: I'll report it again, if it comes back...

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