linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28.2 kernel bug

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Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:44:42 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28.2 kernel bug

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:30:40PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 06:52:24PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>>> While doing a find to get rid of 2.5M smallish files in 1 directory I 
>>>  got the stuff pasted below which made the system freeze.
>>> This is on Fedora 10 on AMD x86_64 with a custom kernel.
>>> Any ideas on how to fix this? Can I help?
>>
>> Run memtest first.
>>
>>> Mar 21 18:27:44 bla kernel: Bad page state in process 'find'
>>> Mar 21 18:27:44 bla kernel: page:ffffe20001d4b8e8   
>>> flags:0x4000000000080008 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:1 count:0
>>> Mar 21 18:27:44 bla kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
>
> Can do, but so far there was no trace of memory error. I can compile  
> kernels for days without this bug which hit me for the first time today.
> The machine was up for 36 days or so with no other kernel-related  
> crash/BUG/etc.
> Also the links I posted might point in the direction of a kernel issue?

Do you have ECC memory?
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