sporadic oops and freeze when booting 2.6.39-2-amd64 on debian wheezy
Dear kernel mailing list,
the boot process freezes sometimes(average once from 15 boots) since 2.6.39-2-amd64.
I have uploaded a kernel.log when the boot process freezes:
http://www.tech-chat.de/files/kern_failed.log
After waiting 15min I made a hard reset and this time the computer booted successfully:
http://www.tech-chat.de/files/kern_working.log
I have cropped the date and made a diff with
awk 'BEGIN{FS="]"}{$1="";print $0}' kern_failed.log > kern_failed_without_time.log
awk 'BEGIN{FS="]"}{$1="";print $0}' kern_working.log > kern_working_without_time.log
diff -uN kern_failed_without_time.log kern_working_without_time.log> diff.log
http://www.tech-chat.de/files/diff.log
Here some interessting parts from the diff.log
...
BIOS-e820: 00000000cfea8000 - 00000000cfed0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000cfed0000 - 00000000cff00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
- BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 00000001a0000000 (usable)
+ BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000220000000 (usable)
...
-last_pfn = 0x1a0000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000 +last_pfn = 0x220000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
...
-TOM2: 00000001b0000000 aka 6912M
+TOM2: 0000000230000000 aka 8960M
...
- Normal zone: 8960 pages used for memmap - Normal zone: 646400 pages, LIFO batch:31 + Normal zone: 16128 pages used for memmap + Normal zone: 1163520 pages, LIFO batch:31 ... - IP: [<ffffffff81042b3d> load_balance+0x5e4/0x688 - PGD 1605067 PUD 0 - Oops: 0000 [#1 SMP - last sysfs file: /sys/module/crc_itu_t/initstate - CPU 3 -- - IP: [<ffffffff81042b3d> load_balance+0x5e4/0x688 - PGD 1605067 PUD 0 - Oops: 0000 [#2 SMP - last sysfs file: /sys/module/nfsd/initstate - CPU 0
...
I think the BIOS reports sometimes bogus data? The motherboard is a Asus M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3 with BIOS 2101
(http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3/M4A89GTD_PROUSB3/#download)
This all leads finally to:
Jul 13 17:02:01 PhenomBabe kernel: [ 13.137385] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff0a646ecf Jul 13 17:02:01 PhenomBabe kernel: [ 13.141181] IP: [<ffffffff81042b3d>] load_balance+0x5e4/0x688 Jul 13 17:02:01 PhenomBabe kernel: [ 13.141181] PGD 1605067 PUD 0 Jul 13 17:02:01 PhenomBabe kernel: [ 13.141181] Oops: 0000 [#2] SMP
Any hints on that or may I provide further data?
Please add me to CC if possible.
Thank you very much,
best regards Andy