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[Xen-users] OpenSuse10.3/2.6.22.17 DomU intermittent hang (irqbalance?)

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Subject: [Xen-users] OpenSuse10.3/2.6.22.17 DomU intermittent hang (irqbalance?)
From: "Chiu, PCM (Peter)" <P.C.M.Chiu@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:38:28 +0100
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Thread-topic: OpenSuse10.3/2.6.22.17 DomU intermittent hang (irqbalance?)
Wonder if anyone can shed some light to this.

I have set up a XEN server using OpenSuse 10.3 (x86_64) and a virtual machine 
also with OpenSuse 10.3 (x86_64), the latter with 4 CPUs and 10GB of memory 
space.

We have been hitting some intermittent system hangs on the virtual machine.
The system log does not reveal much, so I have turned on the audit log.
In the last occasion, the audit log reveals the last system call being on 
irqbalance.
Then on the console, a slightly distorted messages shows "unable to handle 
kernel NULL pointer dereference"
- see below.

Will be grateful if anyone has got any idea on this.

Regards,
Peter 

 
1. Audit  log

type=PATH msg=audit(02/06/08 23:47:11.005:14164084) : item=0 
name=/proc/irq/264/smp_affinity inode=4026532404 dev=00:03 mode=file,600 
ouid=root ogid=root rdev=00:00

type=CWD msg=audit(02/06/08 23:47:11.005:14164084) :  cwd=/ 

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(02/06/08 23:47:11.005:14164084) : arch=x86_64 
syscall=open success=yes exit=3 a0=7fff19073ff0 a1=241 a2=1b6 a3=241 items=1 
ppid=1 pid=2555 auid=unset uid=root gid=root euid=root suid=root fsuid=root 
egid=root sgid=root fsgid=root tty=(none) comm=irqbalance 
exe=/usr/sbin/irqbalance key=(null) 
----
type=PATH msg=audit(02/06/08 23:47:11.005:14164085) : item=0 
name=/proc/irq/261/smp_affinity inode=4026532398 dev=00:03 mode=file,600 
ouid=root ogid=root rdev=00:00 

type=CWD msg=audit(02/06/08 23:47:11.005:14164085) :  cwd=/ 

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(02/06/08 23:47:11.005:14164085) : arch=x86_64 
syscall=open success=yes exit=3 a0=7fff19073ff0 a1=241 a2=1b6 a3=241 items=1 
ppid=1 pid=2555 auid=unset uid=root gid=root euid=root suid=root fsuid=root 
egid=root sgid=root fsgid=root tty=(none) comm=irqbalance 
exe=/usr/sbin/irqbalance key=(null) 
----
type=CWD msg=audit(02/06/08 23:47:11.005:14164086) :  cwd=/

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(02/06/08 23:47:11.005:14164086) : arch=x86_64 
syscall=open success=yes exit=3 a0=7fff19073ff0 a1=241 a2=1b6 a3=241 items=1 
ppid=1 pid=2555 auid=unset uid=root gid=root euid=root suid=root fsuid=root 
egid=root sgid=root fsgid=root tty=(none) comm=irqbalance 
exe=/usr/sbin/irqbalance key=(null)

-------> the above is last system message before system hang.

2. Console log

audit(1211876547.970:2338):  cwd="/etc/sysconfig/network"
audit(1211876547.970:2338): item=0 name="/etc/modprobe.d" inode=251861312 
dev=ca:01 mode=040755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00
audit(1211876547.970:2339): arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=yes exit=7 
a0=7fff6cbf4240 a1=0 a2=1b6 a3=0audit(1211876548.002:2423): arch=c000003e 
syscall=2 success=yes exit=3 a0=7fff4809c7e0 a1=0 a2=0 a3=4547415353454d5f 
items=1 ppid=2332 pid=2349 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 
egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) comm="rm" exe="/bin/rm" key=(null)
audit(1211876548.002:2423):  cwd="/etc/sysconfig/network"
audit(1211876548.002:2423): item=0 
name="/usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES" inode=83999014 
dev=ca:01 mode=0100644 ouid=0 
ogid=audit(121187654audaudit(1211876548.046:2544): arch=c000003e syscall=2 
success=yes exit=3 a0=2aaba2c34b96 a1=0 a2=1 
a3=ffffffffffaudit(1211876548.05audiauUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer 
dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP: 
 [<ffffffff80278380>] free_bl ipt_REJECT xt_state iptablFS:  
00002af5d3bd7b00(0000) GS:ffffffff804dc000(0000) knlGS:00 48 c7 46 08 00 02 20 
00 
RIP  [<ffffffff80278380>] free_block+0x9d/0x146
 RSP <ffff88027f837a50>
CR2: 0000000000000000


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