Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932380AbWE3SoS (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 14:44:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932387AbWE3SoR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 14:44:17 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:62940 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932380AbWE3SoR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 14:44:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 11:44:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Tomasz Torcz cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address feededed (was: Re: Linux v2.6.17-rc5) In-Reply-To: <20060528182342.GA9433@irc.pl> Message-ID: References: <20060528182342.GA9433@irc.pl> 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: 1514 Lines: 36 On Sun, 28 May 2006, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > After 2 days and few hours uptime, during updatedb run I got: > > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address feededed Looks like one of the magic numbers ("0xfee1dead", "0xfeedbeef", 0xfeedface"), but that's not it. > It never happened before. d_splice_alias in bt is very strange, as I don't > think anything on my system uses splice(). It's too new, and my system is > Slackware -current (which seems to return ENOSUPORTED even for old stuff > like posix_fadvise()). No, d_splice_alias() is a different kind of splicing: it splices a dentry entry into the alias list. Nothing to do with the new splice() system call, except that the naming comes from the same english word ("splice: to join two ropes by interweaving strands"). I don't see anything suspicious anywhere, and this doesn't ring a bell. It is probably a good idea to open a bugzilla entry on it, so that it doesn't get lost. And perhaps cc the reiserfs people (there's been a few reiserfs changes since 2.6.16, but none of them looks suspicious to me: however, maybe this makes somebody else go "Aaah!"). Try Jan Kara , Jeff Mahoney and Alexander Zarochentzev . Linus - 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/