From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262656AbVHDUN3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:13:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262657AbVHDUN3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:13:29 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:39661 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262656AbVHDUN1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:13:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:15:12 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Alexander Nyberg Cc: ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: x86_64 access of some bad address Message-Id: <20050804131512.7d464fad.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1119539630.1170.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1119539630.1170.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) 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 Alexander Nyberg wrote: > > As I only have one x86_64 which is my main workstation it's far too > tedious to do binary searching (this doesn't happen on x86). > > Happens with both latest -git and 2.6.12-mm1 > The tools to reproduce this is at: http://serkiaden.mine.nu/kp2.tar > > Just do: > gdb lyze > run > > and it crashes here giving: > > ----------- [cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] --------- > Kernel BUG at "mm/memory.c":911 So I think Hugh's patch this morning should fix this up. Please retest -rc6 when it's out?