From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:52:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:52:09 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:27652 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:52:06 -0500 From: Russell King Message-Id: <200101261948.f0QJm6q09263@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages To: pdh@colonel-panic.com (Peter Horton) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:48:05 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010126194605.A923@colonel-panic.com> from "Peter Horton" at Jan 26, 2001 07:46:05 PM X-Location: london.england.earth.mulky-way.universe X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Horton writes: > The corruption is dependent on having a swapped on swap partition. If I > "swapoff" the corruption goes away, but it comes back when I "swapon" > again. I feel this a kernel bug, but as I'm the only person out here who's > seeing it I'm at a loss ... What compiler are you using? The reason I ask is that on an ARM box running plain 2.4.0 with swap enabled I get rather a lot of SEGVs. Turn swap off, and I don't see any. It sounds like it may be related. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/