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From: Dan Malek

To: bogdan antonovici

Cc: linuxppc-dev ; linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org ; ppckernel

Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:59 PM

Subject: Re: swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 00480020

On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:29 AM, bogdan antonovici wrote:

> At the time of swap messages i was running a proprietary driver, my
> application and few daemons.

Looks like your driver may have written over some of the page
tables in the kernel space.

> I look on the net for some clues but it's quite confusing, i noticed
> many emails on swap_dup/swap_free error messages but i couldn't figure
> out what should i search for.

Those messages are likely due to a bug with swapping to disk
that has been in some 2.4 kernels, but I don't believe that is
the case here, since you don't have a disk or swapping enabled.


-- Dan