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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:47:01 +0100
From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-mm2
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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On 1/7/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.15/2.6.15-mm2/
> >
> > This should be somewhat less buggy than 2.6.15-mm1.
> >
> For some maybe. For me it's just as broken as 2.6.15-mm1 :-(
>
> I'll turn on all debug switches and try and collect some crash dumps.
> If there's anything specific you want me to try, let me know.
>

Ok, got some info.

Following Dave's theory that, given that I hit bad_page() sometimes
during the crash that might actually be the first thing I hit before
hitting BUG(), I added an infinite loop at the end of bad_page() so it
would stay on screen for me to write down - and bad_page() turns out
to actuall *be* the very first thing I hit.

Here's what bad_page printed for me :

Bad page state in process 'kded'
[<c0103e77>] dump_stack+0x17/0x20
[<c0148999>] bad_page+0x69/0x160
[<c0148e92>] __free_pages_ok+0xa2/0x120
[<c0149c7f>] __free_pages+0x2f/0x60
[<c02acb63>] sg_page_free+0x23/0x30
[<c02abdb3>] sg_remove_scat+0x63/0xe0
[<c02ac80d>] __sg_remove_sfp+0x4d/0xc0
[<c02ac927>] sg_remove_sfp+0xa7/0x120
[<c02a8b39>] sg_release+0x49/0xc0
[<c0166827>] __fput+0x167/0x1b0
[<c01666ab>] fput+0x3b/0x50
[<c0164efc>] filp_close+0x3c/0x80
[<c0164fa9>] sys_close+0x69/0x90
[<c0103009>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Hexdump:
000: ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
010: 50 81 e8 c1 50 81 e8 c1 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00
020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
040: 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


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