From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264637AbTFEL7H (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 07:59:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264635AbTFEL7H (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 07:59:07 -0400 Received: from lindsey.linux-systeme.com ([80.190.48.67]:54538 "EHLO mx00.linux-systeme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264637AbTFEL7E (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 07:59:04 -0400 From: Marc-Christian Petersen Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel To: Thomas Kaeding , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: more info for last message (bug at page_alloc.c:102) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:12:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200306051410.32138.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary="Boundary-00=_gOz3+4EwRr9BxFy" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Boundary-00=_gOz3+4EwRr9BxFy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 05 June 2003 14:04, Thomas Kaeding wrote: Hi Thomas. > Here is more info that you might need. The problem occurred overnight. > In the morning, the mouse worked until I tried to start an app > in KDE, then everything froze. Ctl-alt-bkspc gave only a black screen. > I had to hit restart. > NVdriver 1065216 10 well, this won't help you right now, but you know how to proceed if you read the attached patch. It fits your situation ;) ciao, Marc --Boundary-00=_gOz3+4EwRr9BxFy Content-Type: text/x-diff; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="nvidia-bug-explaination.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="nvidia-bug-explaination.patch" diff -urN a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c Sat Aug 3 17:08:40 2002 +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c Thu Oct 17 16:42:24 2002 @@ -98,8 +98,12 @@ if (page->buffers) BUG(); - if (page->mapping) - BUG(); + if (page->mapping) { + printk(KERN_CRIT "Page has mapping still set. This is a serious situation. However if you\n"); + printk(KERN_CRIT "are using the NVidia binary only module please report this bug to\n"); + printk(KERN_CRIT "NVidia and not to the Linux Kernel Mailinglist!\n"); + BUG(); + } if (!VALID_PAGE(page)) BUG(); if (PageLocked(page)) --Boundary-00=_gOz3+4EwRr9BxFy--