Subject: Re: oops report (or at least a try to make one)
To: bzd@astercity.net (Artur Brodowski)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:19:30 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20020417122713.404e0cdd.bzd@astercity.net> from "Artur Brodowski" at Apr 17, 2002 12:27:13 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

> first i thought the reason could be that i use nvidia driver, as it gives
> a warning about tainted kernel, but i used it for a while before on the
> same machine/same kernel version, and there were no problems. also, this
> error indicates it's kswapd issue.

Unfortunately something like a memory scribble often shows up in
kswapd or other code that walks long lists (dcache is another common place
it shows up). I make no judgement either way on the Nvidia driver being a
factor but the report only really becomes really interesting if you can
replicate it without the nvidia driver being loaded that boot.

If this is a one off from a box thats mostly stable anyway it gets tricky
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