From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Octavio Alvarez Piza <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mm/rmap.c negative page map count BUG.
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:12:54 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601111603520.4337@goblin.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060111000111.5fa4bdce@octavio.alvarezp.pri>
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Octavio Alvarez Piza wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:00:41 -0800
> "Octavio Alvarez" <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org> wrote:
>
> I have found another instance of "bad_page_state" with mapcount:-1
> before hitting BUG_ON().
>
> Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'X', page c1140c60)
> flags:0x80010008 mapping:00000000 mapcount:-65536 count:0
No, that's mapcount -65536 not -1.
That means page->_mapcount contained 0xfffeffff when it should have
contained 0xffffffff. A single bit got cleared. Probably bad memory,
overheating, something of that kind.
> I ran memtest86+ for 24 hours prior to installing the latest kernel boot
> with no errors reported.
Well, you've done your best to rule out that possibility, yes.
We can't rule out that something somewhere in the kernel has
scribbled on that location, but I've no guesses what.
Hugh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-03 8:26 Dave Jones
2006-01-03 11:42 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-03 13:53 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-04 23:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-04 23:56 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-05 0:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-05 0:31 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-05 7:47 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-05 8:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-05 11:15 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-05 11:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-05 11:26 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-05 19:00 ` Octavio Alvarez
2006-01-11 8:01 ` Octavio Alvarez Piza
2006-01-11 16:12 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2006-01-11 16:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-11 16:58 ` Octavio Alvarez Piza
2006-01-11 17:18 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-11 17:24 ` Andrew Morton
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