Re: Oops with tmpfs on both 2.4.22 & 2.6.0-test11

From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 02:59:31 EST


On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:21:26PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:17:46PM -0800, James W McMechan wrote:
> > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00200200
> > c018a152
> > *pde = 00000000
> > Oops: 0002 [#1]
> > CPU: 0
> > EIP: 0060:[<c018a152>] Not tainted
>
> This is significantly different in nature from the 2.4 oops, since
> 2.4 hit NULL and this pointer is total garbage.
>
> Either it's a double bitflip or even worse is afoot.

This oops is completely understood. I was going to write to you
yesterday evening, but then saw that Oleg Drokin already had
written. Didnt you see his mail?

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