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From: Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops when using git gc --auto
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:21:39 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lk57yf0s.fsf@ossystems.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802270033.31297.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (Nick Piggin's message of "Wed\, 27 Feb 2008 00\:33\:31 +1100")

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> writes:

> On Wednesday 27 February 2008 00:22, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Today I got this oops, someone has an idea of what's going wrong?
>>
>> Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000020000000000 RIP:
>>  [<ffffffff802735c3>] find_get_pages+0x3c/0x69
>
> At this point, the most likely candidate is a memory corruption
> error, probably hardware. Can you run memtest86 for a few hours
> to get a bit more confidence in the hw (preferably overnight)?

Those memories are new, but I can try. No problem. Will get back to
you by tomorrow.

> I did recently see another quite similar corruption in the
> pagecache radix-tree, though. Coincidence maybe?

I hope not.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-26 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-26 13:22 oops when using git gc --auto Otavio Salvador
2008-02-26 13:33 ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-26 14:21   ` Otavio Salvador [this message]
2008-02-26 19:36   ` Otavio Salvador
2008-02-27 20:01     ` Otavio Salvador

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