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From: Brian Marete <bgmarete@gmail.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: bad page state in process (In version 2.6.31.2)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:57:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dd519ae0911200657l752437f5i7c97669328a2b381@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dd519ae0910080228n4eb9853eg38bfbb6584729371@mail.gmail.com>

Since upgrading to 2.6.31.5 (and now running 2.6.31.6), I have not
been able to replicate this bug, whether with the proprietary modules
loaded or not.

Thanks!

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Brian Marete <bgmarete@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok. Will do without having the nvidia module loaded and report on the
> results. Also, I run a full pass of memtest86 and no problems were
> discovered.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 10/8/09, Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Brian Marete wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Brian Marete <bgmarete@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Brian Marete <bgmarete@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Just found the BUG back-trace pasted below in my kernel logs.
>>>
>>> Rebooted the machine and the same BUG manifests. See the trace below:
>>>
>>> (Also, run memtest86 just in case I have bad memory.)
>>>
>>> [  726.890990] BUG: Bad page state in process tracker-indexer  pfn:77541
>>> [  726.890997] page:c47eb820 flags:80000000 count:0 mapcount:0
>>> mapping:00000001 index:0
>>
>>                  ^ for some reason that page->mapping got a 1 in it.
>>
>>> [  726.891002] Pid: 9758, comm: tracker-indexer Tainted: P
>>> 2.6.31.2 #1
>>
>>                    but you're using a Proprietary module   ^
>>
>> It's great that you can reproduce this case easily, but please try
>> without Proprietary modules loaded - they're often the origin, and
>> we're unable to debug them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hugh
>>
>
>
> --
> B. Gitonga Marete
> Tel: +254-722-151-590
>



-- 
B. Gitonga Marete
Tel: +254-722-151-590

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-20 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 23:34 Brian Marete
2009-10-08  0:10 ` Brian Marete
2009-10-08  1:05   ` Brian Marete
2009-10-08  9:04     ` Hugh Dickins
     [not found]       ` <6dd519ae0910080228n4eb9853eg38bfbb6584729371@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-20 14:57         ` Brian Marete [this message]

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