Re: Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related?

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:38:20AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kai Makisara wrote:
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> > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'taper', page ffff81000260b6f8)
> > > flags:0x010000000000000c mapping:ffff8100355f1dd8 mapcount:2 count:0
> > > Backtrace:
>
> Ryan, can you test 2.6.15-rc4 and report what it does?
>
> The "Bad page state" messages may (should) remain, but the crashes should
> be gone and the machine should hopefully continue functioning fine. And,
> perhaps more importantly, you should hopefully have a _new_ message about
> incomplete pfn mappings that should help pinpoint which driver causes
> this..

Will do, I plan to take this machine down Saturday to run memtest86 for
a while (just to be sure - 2/3 of the RAM is new, but I should be seeing
machine checks if that were the problem, no?) so I'll boot this after that.

Thanks,
-ryan
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