Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491

[Con Kolivas]

Alistair John Strachan writes:

> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:35, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Chen, Kenneth W writes:
> > > Con Kolivas wrote on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:24 PM
> > >
> > >> Chen, Kenneth W writes:
> > >> > Has people seen this BUG_ON before?  On 2.6.15-rc2, x86-64.
> > >> >
> > >> > Pid: 16500, comm: cc1 Tainted: G    B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
> > >> >
> > >> > Pid: 16651, comm: sh Tainted: G    B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
> > >>
> > >>                        ^^^^^^^^^^
> > >>
> > >> Please try to reproduce it without proprietary binary modules linked in.
> > >
> > > ???, I'm not using any modules at all.
> > >
> > > [albat]$ /sbin/lsmod
> > > Module                  Size  Used by
> > > [albat]$
> > >
> > >
> > > Also, isn't it 'P' indicate proprietary module, not 'G'?
> > > line 159: kernel/panic.c:
> > >
> > >         snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "Tainted: %c%c%c%c%c%c",
> > >                 tainted & TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE ? 'P' : 'G',
> >
> > Sorry it's not proprietary module indeed. But what is tainting it?
>
> Probably a prior oops or some other marked error condition.

My humble apologies! Force of habit when seeing tainted message which 
comes up so often :(

Con

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