Re: [discuss] 2.6.19-rc6: known regressions (v4)

From: Andre Noll
Date: Wed Nov 22 2006 - 11:10:29 EST


On 11:42, Andi Kleen wrote:
> ject : x86_64: Bad page state in process 'swapper'
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/10/135
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/10/208
> > Submitter : Andre Noll <maan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Handled-By : David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Status : problem is being debugged
>
> Does this still happen with -rc6?

Unfortunately, yes. I tried rc6, current git, and currrent git + David
Rientjes' patch. They all show the same behaviour.

> It's probably another bug in the memmap parsing rewrite (Mel cc'ed)
> but the debugging information in the standard kernel unfortunately
> doesn't give enough output to find out where it happens.

Feel free to send me a debugging patch..

Andre
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