From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932433AbVLAT5B (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:57:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932430AbVLAT5A (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:57:00 -0500 Received: from solarneutrino.net ([66.199.224.43]:9477 "EHLO tau.solarneutrino.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932428AbVLAT5A (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:57:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 14:56:57 -0500 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kai Makisara , Andrew Morton , James Bottomley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, ryan@tau.solarneutrino.net Subject: Re: Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related? Message-ID: <20051201195657.GB7236@tau.solarneutrino.net> References: <20051129092432.0f5742f0.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Ryan Richter Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:38:20AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kai Makisara wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'taper', page ffff81000260b6f8) > > > flags:0x010000000000000c mapping:ffff8100355f1dd8 mapcount:2 count:0 > > > Backtrace: > > 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.. Will do, I plan to take this machine down Saturday to run memtest86 for a while (just to be sure - 2/3 of the RAM is new, but I should be seeing machine checks if that were the problem, no?) so I'll boot this after that. Thanks, -ryan