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

Mel Gorman
2006-11-22T17:03:47Z

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@systemlinux.org>
>>> Handled-By : David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
>>> 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