Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 bug in page_alloc.c:131

["Alexandre P. Nunes" <alex@PolesApart.dhs.org>]

Markus Schoder wrote:

>Hi Alexandre,
>
>you are using the proprietary nVidia module (NVdriver), so you would have
>to address any kernel problems to nVidia since they are the ones who have the
>source.
>
>However lots of people (including myself) have seen the same problem when 
>using the nVidia module.  For me it went away when upgrading to the 1.0-2960 
>drivers.  If you haven't done so yet this would be the first thing to try.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Markus
>
>  
>
I'm already using the 1.0-2960 version, and that's the version in the 
report. It's possible that the NVdriver module is the cause of the 
problem, but the bug spots in kernel's vm, in a place which it's no 
supposed to, at the point I understand. So, or the module does something 
very ugly, or the kernel really have a bug, or yet it's nothing related 
to the nvdriver. Unfortunately, the backtrace don't help me figuring 
that out, since I'm no vm expert, but perhaps someone will. I may 
attempt to forward this to Nvidia folks, but reporting a bug which only 
spotted once and in a "pre" series kernel may hurt their feelings...

Thanks,

Alexandre