Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:26:53 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Kernel BUG(oops) does not occur after upgrading glibc |
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 02:33:46PM +0530, Srikrishnan Sundararajan wrote: > I got the following oops message using my S/390 VM-type linux image with > 2GB of memory. (Kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:91!) > Using 2.4.19. I was running a test program which keeps on allocating memory > using malloc and assigns values (with proper checking of return value of > malloc. ) While using brk( ) system call, I did not get any problems. > When I upgraded my glibc from version 2.2.5 to 2.3.1, the oops or Kernel > BUG no longer occurred. As it was a "Kernel BUG" in the first place, do we > still consider this as a BUG in the kernel or purely an error in glibc > which was fixed in the 2.3.1 version? > My inference is that using malloc which is part of the older glibc (2.2.5) > was corrupting a kernel data structure, which resulted in the oops during > swap_out. > Note: I was not able to reproduce this problem on intel. I do not have any > nVidia driver.
A BUG() is a BUG(); I suggest downgrading glibc, reproducing the problem, and submitting a bugreport.
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