From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932449AbWA1Sbj (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:31:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932451AbWA1Sbj (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:31:39 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.195]:39556 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932449AbWA1Sbi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:31:38 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=srPGEHDuqgCpwFcw5soBbRSipbpKPR1KnvqAkVDBRo98mY/F0+PDLvHY/4Hb5d5jlqGD0flJou1m49TWCsUyOm02He++/Mx3W20uOhyqRjqKXnpl388SDt3Wj27dCCBpkF2cvnc4G7pya3XNUWZ7Zx7yi0PUo8v0dKFwmF+yi2Y= Message-ID: <9a8748490601281031x514f0b9ckffcdce64148ebd8d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:31:36 +0100 From: Jesper Juhl To: Ken MacFerrin Subject: Re: PROBLEM: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:486 - kernel 2.6.15-r1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43DAE307.5010306@macferrin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <43DAE307.5010306@macferrin.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/28/06, Ken MacFerrin wrote: > I started getting hard lockups on my desktop PC with the error "kernel > BUG at mm/rmap.c:487" starting with kernel 2.6.13 and continuing through > 2.6.14. After switching to 2.6.15 the lockups have continued with the > message "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:486". > > The frequency and circumstance are completely random which originally > had me suspecting bad memory but after running Memtest86+ for over 12 > hours without error I'm at a loss. > > I'm running the binary Nvidia driver so I'll understand if I can't get > help here but in searching through the list archives it would seem I'm > not alone and I am willing to try any patches that may help diagnose the > issue. The crash happens at least daily and I've seen no difference in > running kernels with or without PREEMPT enabled. > If you don't actually *need* accelerated 3D (or if you could do without it for a while), switching to the "nv" driver for a few days/weeks would be interresting. If the crashes go away that would point towards the nvidia driver, if they don't go away we'll get a nice untainted crash report. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html