From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932439AbVLAU2u (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:28:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932447AbVLAU2u (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:28:50 -0500 Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:2742 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932439AbVLAU2t (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:28:49 -0500 Subject: Re: Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related? From: James Bottomley To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kai Makisara , Ryan Richter , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20051129092432.0f5742f0.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:28:02 -0600 Message-Id: <1133468882.5232.14.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 11:38 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ryan, can you test 2.6.15-rc4 and report what it does? > > The "Bad page state" messages may (should) remain, but the crashes should > be gone and the machine should hopefully continue functioning fine. And, > perhaps more importantly, you should hopefully have a _new_ message about > incomplete pfn mappings that should help pinpoint which driver causes > this.. On a side note, I have Kai's patch in the scsi-rc-fixes tree which I'm getting ready to push. Can we get a consensus on whether it should be removed before I merge upwards? Thanks, James