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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:53:26 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: mm/rmap.c negative page map count BUG.
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Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
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>  > Can you print ->flags, ->count, ->mapping, etc instead of going BUG?
> 
> I can add some instrumentation like this though, and see what turns up.

Can we get that instrumentation into the upstream kernel please?  We do
seem to be hitting rmap assertions too often for it to be dud
hardware/bodgy drivers/etc.