Re: [PATCH] __free_pages_ok oops

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 00:47:28 EST


Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:06:01PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Sorry, no solution, but maybe another oops in __free_pages_ok might help?
>
> I haven't seen the original oops, but if this patch goes in, it
> reintroduces the problem where network drivers / others release
> pages from irq context causing a BUG(). See sendpage.
>

Calling lru_cache_del from interrupt is a bug, so Hugh's patch
is valid.

Are you sure that the pages are being released from interrupt context?

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