Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | "Christian Ehrhardt" <> | Date | Sat, 17 Nov 2001 23:53:27 +0100 | Subject | Re: VM-related Oops: 2.4.15pre1 |
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:23:44PM -0800, Simon Kirby wrote: > This box has Oopsed twice but is still running. Both Oopses followed a > BUG() report (same in both cases): > > kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:76! > > Which maps to: > > if (page->mapping) > BUG(); > > ...in __free_pages_ok() in mm/page_alloc.c.
I think this one liner (diffed against 2.4.14) could fix this Oops:
--- mm/vmscan.c.vanilla Sat Nov 17 23:37:01 2001 +++ mm/vmscan.c Sat Nov 17 23:39:04 2001 @@ -414,10 +414,9 @@ * the page as well. */ if (page->buffers) { - spin_unlock(&pagemap_lru_lock); - /* avoid to free a locked page */ page_cache_get(page); + spin_unlock(&pagemap_lru_lock); if (try_to_free_buffers(page, gfp_mask)) { if (!page->mapping) { regards Christian
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