Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:47:13 +0100 | From | Ralf Hildebrandt <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.21-pre3-ac4 oops in free_pages_ok |
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* Tupshin Harper <tupshin@tupshin.com>: > There are multiple other threads about this problem recently. One > started by me, as well as a few others. > The consensus is that it's a problem in the ac tree, and is not present > in 2.4.21-pre3.
Yep.
> Some people seem to avoid the problem by disabling highmem, but this > doesn't work for me. Quota has been mentioned as a possible culprit, but > disabling that also doesn't help me.
Correct. I use neither himem nor quotas, still it crashes.
> The ac changes to mm/shmem.c are > still a possibility, though one reporter seems to have tried that > without any success.
Yup, I tried that. No go.
> The remaining candidate that has been mentioned to > me is the buffer cache changes in the ac tree, this seems moderately > likely. I don't see any obvious way to break out those changes from > Alan's large ac4 patch, so I emailed him hoping to get a patch free of > those changes, but I haven't heard back yet(it's been 9 hours > already...how dare he ignore me ;-).
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