Re: Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:10:58PM -0800, David Liontooth wrote:

 > > Two things:
 > > a.  Can you try a recent/current kernel to see if this happens?
 > > b.  The "Tainted: GF" means that a module was forcibly loaded.
 > > What module was this?  and is it compatible with a 2.6.16.38 kernel?
 > > Can you reproduce this problem without having that module loaded?
 > >   
 > Randy, thanks for responding. I discovered that the files the script was
 > operating on were corrupt, so let me see if it recurs with healthy files.
 > 
 > It's the lirc module that generates the GF flag --
 > 
 >     lirc_serial: no version for "lirc_unregister_plugin" found: kernel
 > tainted.
 > 
 > So it's not actually forced. I'll remove it if this problem recurs.
 > 
 > I've tried 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 on this box, and they are moderately stable
 > if I use acpi_use_timer_override. It's a production machine, so I can't
 > experiment much.

Which will make it awkward for my suggestion..   The box I was seeing
this on turned out to have hardware problems.  A run of memtest86 may
show up something.  Then again, maybe it won't.  The failing box
I had ran memtest86 for days without incident, despite that the
capacitors on the motherboard were oozing out their goo.

		Dave

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