From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux 2.2.18pre17 + VM-global -7 = `Negative d_count' oops
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:05:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001027010539.B1282@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39F4AB91.72F2C300@transmeta.com> <20001025050631.A6817@athlon.random> <14840.27617.448792.438567@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <14840.27617.448792.438567@chiark.greenend.org.uk>; from ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:37:37PM +0100
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:37:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Negative d_count (-805538369) for [binary garbage]/<NULL>
>
> followed by an oops. Kernel logfile extract below, uuencoded.
Thanks for the feedback.
The oops is forced by the kernel after it sees then wrong negative d_count.
I'd say it's memory corruption, but it doesn't look like a memory bitflip.
I'm almost certain that it's not caused by the VM-global patch.
Which device driver and compiler are you using?
Andrea
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2000-10-26 17:37 ` linux 2.2.18pre17 + VM-global -7 = `Negative d_count' oops Ian Jackson
2000-10-26 23:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2000-10-27 11:14 ` Ian Jackson
2000-10-27 15:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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