linux-kernel - Re: [discuss] 2.6.19-rc6: known regressions (v4)

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Message-ID: <20061122160549.GD27761@skl-net.de>
Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:05:49 +0100
From:	Andre Noll <maan@...temlinux.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	discuss@...-64.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...washington.edu>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>
Subject: Re: [discuss] 2.6.19-rc6: known regressions (v4)

On 11:42, Andi Kleen wrote:
> ject    : x86_64: Bad page state in process 'swapper'
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/10/135
> >              http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/10/208
> > Submitter  : Andre Noll <maan@...temlinux.org>
> > Handled-By : David Rientjes <rientjes@...washington.edu>
> > Status     : problem is being debugged
> 
> Does this still happen with -rc6? 

Unfortunately, yes. I tried rc6, current git, and currrent git + David
Rientjes' patch. They all show the same behaviour.

> It's probably another bug in the memmap parsing rewrite (Mel cc'ed) 
> but the debugging information in the standard kernel unfortunately
> doesn't give enough output to find out where it happens.

Feel free to send me a debugging patch..

Andre
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