Re: Linux 2.4.25-rc1

From: Rik van Riel (riel_at_redhat.com)
Date: 03/01/04

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    Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:20:46 -0500 (EST)
    To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
    
    

    On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

    > > We just had a box which crashed only 2 hour from deployment, and
    > > reading over the recent changes this seems like a potential cause
    > > (although being new, faulty hardware is always a possibility); the
    > > last items on its serial console were:
    > >
    > > INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
    > > memory.c:100: bad pmd 000001e3.
    > > memory.c
    >
    > This looks like hardware fault to me or a (maybe, not sure) badly
    > behaving driver. The inode-highmem modifications can't cause such
    > breakage, as far as I can see.

    Agreed, this looks like a hardware fault.

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