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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:01:44 +0100
From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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On 1/9/06, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:47:01PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
>  > Here's what bad_page printed for me :
>  >
>  > Bad page state in process 'kded'
>  > [<c0103e77>] dump_stack+0x17/0x20
>  > [<c0148999>] bad_page+0x69/0x160
>
> Odd, there should be more state between the 'Bad page'
> and the backtrace.
>
>     printk(KERN_EMERG "Bad page state in process '%s'\n"
>                 "page:%p flags:0x%0*lx mapping:%p mapcount:%d count:%d\n"
>                 "Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed\n"
>
> Did you aggressively trim that, or did it for some
> reason not get printed ?
>

I did not trim that.

All I did was add

 printk(KERN_EMERG "we hit bad page, looping forever\n");
 while (1) {
    mdelay(1000);
 }

to the end of bad_page()

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