Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750838AbWB0J2t (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:28:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750852AbWB0J2t (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:28:49 -0500 Received: from smtp108.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.218]:55462 "HELO smtp108.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750838AbWB0J2s (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:28:48 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=DXnFGcKQHaqWwbOr9yRc2uGfTnFNOVWt2VYYmLbgSNHsiNJGHu6/fZsQ0JvaGMrWPt3l7mcge+vlXCSj13oNNrTWTs/H7Av5qyCj0PK+nPdQ9v7ANnXFB3EQVJd650snG9thwFlHl+zYOSdmRur2JodYfOPjYaCkg5BzsrxQQJY= ; Message-ID: <4402C650.7070502@yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:28:48 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.16-rc5 References: <20060227074211.GB15638@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060227074211.GB15638@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 978 Lines: 27 Dave Jones wrote: > Those brave Fedora-rawhide testers have also hit an assortment of slab > related errors recently, manifesting in various ways including our old > friend the negative page_mapcount. > > (From a 2.6.16rc4-git6 based kernel ...) > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182593 > From that report, the page flags indicate that the page is regular old pagecache. I'd be very surprised if there is a mapcount bug here. It looks like something is scribbling in memory, which I would suspect first. However if you do see new mm/rmap bugs, do keep posting them so we can see if there is a pattern. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/