Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161340AbWALWAu (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:00:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161341AbWALWAt (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:00:49 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:41616 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161340AbWALWAs (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:00:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:00:32 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Andreas Mohr cc: Chase Venters , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org Subject: Re: [ck] Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page In-Reply-To: <20060112092406.GA2587@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> Message-ID: References: <200601120301.00361.chase.venters@clientec.com> <20060112092406.GA2587@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1618 Lines: 37 >> Greetings, >> (I'm posting this to LKML and CK because I'm not sure if any of 2.6.15-ck1's >> changes might cause this scenario) >> Recently I've noticed that after my desktop has been up for a while, my music >> playback / mouse cursor movement will on occasion pause briefly. I got >> frustrated with it a minute ago and decided to kill artsd, wondering if there >> could be issues with both arts and amarok's backend holding the audio device >> open at once. >> When running killall artsd, I locked up for a second and found this in dmesg: >> >> Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'artsd', page b1761620) >> flags:0x80000404 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:0 >> Backtrace: >> [] bad_page+0x84/0xbc >> [] free_hot_cold_page+0x65/0x13a >> [] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xf/0x23 >> [] zap_pte_range+0x1d1/0x28f >> [] unmap_page_range+0xc1/0x122 >> [] unmap_vmas+0xed/0x242 >> [] unmap_region+0xb4/0x156 >> [] do_munmap+0x108/0x144 >> [] sys_munmap+0x51/0x76 >> [] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 >> Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Ftr, I get the same stackdump when shutting down X. But look no further: I use an ancient nvidia and 2.6.15 (vanilla). No bad ram here, even tested last week before install. :) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/