kernel: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:359!

One of my servers locked up last night, and after checking the log files, I found this error:

Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:359!
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: invalid operand: 0000
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: CPU: 0
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c012d050>] Not tainted
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: eax: dc4926c0 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c10f73fc edx: c1124d60
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: esi: c10f73e0 edi: 00007589 ebp: c0338860 esp: f7e2df40
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 4, stackpage=f7e2d000)
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: Stack: c10f7040 000001d0 f7e2c000 00000200 000001d0 0000000c 00000020 000001d0
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: 00000020 00000006 c012d1d3 00000006 f7cd9300 c0338860 00000006 000001d0
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: c0338860 00000000 c012d256 00000020 c0338860 00000002 f7e2c000 c012d36c
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: Call Trace: [<c012d1d3>] [<c012d256>] [<c012d36c>] [<c012d3e8>] [<c012d51d>]
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: [<c0105000>] [<c010577e>] [<c012d480>]
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel:
Nov 23 4:40:19 server144 kernel: Code: 0f 0b 67 01 3b b7 2e c0 e9 c2 fd ff ff 0f 0b 66 01 3b b7 2e


It repeats that error about 6 times, and then evidently the server just locked up and I had to have it manually rebooted.

What does this error mean, and what can I do to fix the issue?

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

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