Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:55:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:55:21 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:11268 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:55:16 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: pre6 BUG oops Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 19:53:37 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation Message-ID: <9rpks1$bk$1@penguin.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: <3BE03401.406B8585@mandrakesoft.com> <20011031.094112.125896630.davem@redhat.com> <9rpfbj$vrn$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <3BE04338.8F0AF9D4@mandrakesoft.com> X-Trace: palladium.transmeta.com 1004558148 16363 127.0.0.1 (31 Oct 2001 19:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@transmeta.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Oct 2001 19:55:48 GMT Cache-Post-Path: palladium.transmeta.com!unknown@penguin.transmeta.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <3BE04338.8F0AF9D4@mandrakesoft.com>, Jeff Garzik wrote: >Linus Torvalds wrote: >> Maybe it's just the page count that is buggered, and we free it too >> early as a result. Is this the same machine that had interesting >> trouble before? > >yes, a UP alpha running 2.4.14-pre6, that was described in the false oom >killer report. Ok, I think it's the same bug, and that we're just freeing the wrong page somehow. I wonder if the "VALID_PAGE(page)" macro is reliable on alpha? You seem to be able to trigger this too easily for it to not being something specific to the setup.. 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/