Hi, I've had this problem since at least 2.6.1.

This output I got from a 2.6.2-rc2 compiled with the config attached 

I looked in include/linux/page-flags.h and found out that flags:0x20000094
probably mean

100000000000000000000010010100
                      |  | |_PG_referenced
                      |  |___PG_dirty
                      |______PG_slab

which actually don't tell me anything, but you'll probably do better.

this kind of error crash my machine (see below) almost daily.

cheers, Tobias

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----8<----8<----
Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page
flags:0x20000094 mapping:00000000 mapped:0 count:0
Backtrace:
Call Trace:
 [bad_page+69/112] bad_page+0x45/0x70
 [free_hot_cold_page+61/256] free_hot_cold_page+0x3d/0x100
 [page_remove_rmap+356/368] page_remove_rmap+0x164/0x170
 [free_page_and_swap_cache+57/112] free_page_and_swap_cache+0x39/0x70
 [zap_pte_range+342/432] zap_pte_range+0x156/0x1b0
 [path_release+17/48] path_release+0x11/0x30
 [link_path_walk+164/2560] link_path_walk+0xa4/0xa00
 [zap_pmd_range+69/96] zap_pmd_range+0x45/0x60
 [unmap_page_range+47/96] unmap_page_range+0x2f/0x60
 [unmap_vmas+243/512] unmap_vmas+0xf3/0x200
 [exit_mmap+105/384] exit_mmap+0x69/0x180
 [mmput+92/128] mmput+0x5c/0x80
 [do_exit+334/1024] do_exit+0x14e/0x400
 [timer_interrupt+79/320] timer_interrupt+0x4f/0x140
 [rcu_check_quiescent_state+87/128] rcu_check_quiescent_state+0x57/0x80
 [rcu_process_callbacks+70/288] rcu_process_callbacks+0x46/0x120
 [tasklet_action+85/112] tasklet_action+0x55/0x70
 [do_softirq+91/160] do_softirq+0x5b/0xa0
 [do_group_exit+117/176] do_group_exit+0x75/0xb0
 [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
----8<----8<----
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 6
model		: 10
model name	: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2600+
stepping	: 0
cpu MHz		: 1916.547
cache size	: 512 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips	: 3776.51

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