Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: pre6 BUG oops | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 19:53:37 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <3BE04338.8F0AF9D4@mandrakesoft.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> 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..
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