Andrew Morton wrote: > With these six patches the ppc64 is hitting the BUG in exit_mmap(): > > BUG_ON(mm->nr_ptes); /* This is just debugging */ > > fairly early in boot. > No doubt Hugh will have this fixed before long... but if you have time to spare, you may just try hitting it on the head and making it a bit dumber. It might help show where the problem is. - don't span multiple vmas - don't be so smart about avoiding unfreeable regions I dunno. Maybe it won't help at all. Maybe it will make things worse :P