Re: Kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:117!

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Dec 05 2005 - 09:03:25 EST


On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 14:57 +0100, zine el abidine Hamid wrote:
> Hello Dirk,
>
> First, thank you for responding so fast.
> I have to use the kernel 2.4.18 (or at best the
> 2.4.22).

why?

> I want first understand what's appened;

something in the kernel did something wrong, which caused the VM to
notice the corruption

> Is-it a
> kernel
> problem or is-it a bug off our application which is
> written in C++.

it's probably a driver bug (at least that's most common)
> It seems like there a bug with the VM; is it true?

no it's something that went wrong and first got noticed in the VM,
that's different from being a bug in the VM.


which exactly modules were in use? Are there any modules that didn't
come with that kernel?

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