There was one bug which has been haunting kernels since 2.6.37 (as reports indicated) which can cause bad dereferences under high(er) load. The related bug number would be bug #854050. A patch was found and got somewhat stuck on its way upstream. So the fix only went into our tree quite late and was not included in any kernel updates until now. The patch would be:
commit cc1f777ce7526f1fdc25cdf7b99ea75adc9764ce Author: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> Date: Fri Sep 23 17:02:29 2011 -0400 UBUNTU: SAUCE: x86/paravirt: Partially revert "remove lazy mode in interrupts" [The upstream commit will have a different commit message, though] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/884320 Title: EC2 oneiric "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at f57ba9a1" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/884320/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs