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

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Wed Nov 22 2006 - 12:04:06 EST


On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Andre Noll wrote:

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..




You should have received such a patch from me later in the thread. In combination with the patch at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/10/198 and a copy of the dmesg, I might be able to guess what is going wrong. Thanks

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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