I am running Linux Fc5 2.6.17-2174 on a Tyan 2665 mobo with 4GB memory, dual xeon. I run several virtual machines (win2k3 server) as guests on this vmware server 1.0 host. Everything works great until:
When I launch backup exec to do a disk to disk backup (from sata raid on a
2420SA, to an IDE drive hdb), the linux host goes into a kernel panic. The offending application appears to be a vmware guest.
The first few lines of the console show:
List corruption. next->prev should be f7481858, but was f748313c
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kernel BUG at include/linux/list.h:185!
invalid opcode: 0000 \[#1]
SMP
last sysfs file: /class/scsi_host/host0/proc_name
Modules linked in: radeon(U) drm(U) ipv6(U) autofs4(U) ppdev(U) lm85(U) w83781d
(U) hwmon_vid(U) hwmon(U) i2c_isa(U) vmnet(U) vmmon(U) sunrpc(U) vfat(U) fat
(U) dm_mirror(U) dm_mod(U) video(U) button(U) battery(U) ac(U) lp(U) parport_pc
(U) parport(U) snd_intel8x0(U) snd_ac97_codec(U) snd_ac97_bus(U) ftdi_sio(U)
snd_seq_dummy(U) usbserial(U) snd_seq_oss(U) snd_seq_midi_event(U) snd_seq(U)
snd_seq_device(U) snd_pcm_oss(U) snd_mixer_oss(U) 3c59x(U) snd_pcm(U) e1000(U)
mii(U) ohci1394(U) ieee1394(U) snd_timer(U) sg(U) snd(U) uhci_hcd(U) ehci_hcd
(U) i2c_i801(U) serio_raw(U) soundcore(U) e7xxx_edac(U) snd_page_alloc(U)
floppy(U) i2c_core(U) edac_mc(U) ext3(U) jbd(U) aacraid(U) sd_mod(U) scsi_mod
(U)
CPU: 1
EIP: 0060:\[ do_timer0x39/0x2e6 <f887171f> aac_rkt_intr0x30/0x100 \[aacraid]
handle_IRQ_event0x23/0x4c <c0440b0a> __do_IRQ0x8f/0xe5
do_IRQ+0x67/0x84
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This crash only happens with VMWare, and only during heavy disk access. Is this a vmware bug? (I have run memory and hardware tests and everything shows ok)
Thanks,
M