Page_alloc / Swap 2.4.3 kernel BUG with system idle
G_JOLIET=y # CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y # CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y # CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y # CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set # CONFIG_UDF_FS is not set # CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set # # Network File Systems # # CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set CONFIG_NFS_FS=y # CONFIG_NFS_V3 is not set # CONFIG_NFSD is not set CONFIG_SUNRPC=y CONFIG_LOCKD=y # CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set # CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set # # Partition Types # # CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED is not set CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y # CONFIG_SMB_NLS is not set CONFIG_NLS=y # # Native Language Support # CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1" # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set # CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 is not set # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT is not set # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=y # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1=m # CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ESSSOLO1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ICH is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OSS is not set # # USB support # # CONFIG_USB is not set # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is not set I use the following addition to rc.local #echo -n "Hdparm setting..." /sbin/hdparm -d1 -c1 -A1 -a16 -m16 /dev/hda /sbin/hdparm -d1 -c1 -A1 -a16 -m16 /dev/hdb # echo "done." The XF86config-4 is # XFree86 4.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection # By default, Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use xfs Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection # This loads all the modules... Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "pex5" Load "record" Load "xie" Load "v4l" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "710C" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 30 - 86 VertRefresh 50 - 160 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia Corporation|Riva TnT 128 [NV04]" Driver "nvidia" BoardName "Unknown" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "nVidia Corporation|Riva TnT 128 [NV04]" Monitor "710C" DefaultDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" EndSection The system has become a little unstable with the NVIDIA driver, version 0.9-769 compiled by tar-ball, I have experienced different blocks of the system caused by these driver and xscreensaver or xin
Page_alloc / Swap 2.4.3 kernel BUG with system idle
# CONFIG_DRM_I810 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set # # Multimedia devices # # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set # # File systems # CONFIG_QUOTA=y CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=y # CONFIG_MSDOS_FS is not set CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y CONFIG_JFFS_FS_VERBOSE=0 # CONFIG_CRAMFS is not set # CONFIG_RAMFS is not set CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y CONFIG_JOLIET=y # CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y # CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y # CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y # CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set # CONFIG_UDF_FS is not set # CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set # # Network File Systems # # CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set CONFIG_NFS_FS=y # CONFIG_NFS_V3 is not set # CONFIG_NFSD is not set CONFIG_SUNRPC=y CONFIG_LOCKD=y # CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set # CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set # # Partition Types # # CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED is not set CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y # CONFIG_SMB_NLS is not set CONFIG_NLS=y # # Native Language Support # CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT=iso8859-1 # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15 is not set # CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set # CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 is not set # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT is not set # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=y # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1=m # CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ESSSOLO1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ICH is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OSS is not set # # USB support # # CONFIG_USB is not set # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is not set I use the following addition to rc.local #echo -n Hdparm setting... /sbin/hdparm -d1 -c1 -A1 -a16 -m16 /dev/hda /sbin/hdparm -d1 -c1 -A1 -a16 -m16 /dev/hdb # echo done. The XF86config-4 is # XFree86 4.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator Section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86 Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection # By default, Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use xfs Section Files FontPath unix/:7100 EndSection # This loads all the modules... Section Module Load dbe Load extmod Load glx Load pex5 Load record Load xie Load v4l EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Device /dev/mouse Option Protocol PS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons off Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier 710C VendorName Unknown ModelName Unknown HorizSync 30 - 86 VertRefresh 50 - 160 EndSection Section Device Identifier nVidia Corporation|Riva TnT 128 [NV04] Driver nvidia BoardName Unknown EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device nVidia Corporation|Riva TnT 128 [NV04] Monitor 710C DefaultDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1600x1200 EndSubSection EndSection Section DRI EndSection The system has become a little unstable with the NVIDIA driver, version 0.9-769 compiled by tar-ball, I have experienced different blocks of the system caused by these driver and xscreensaver or xine. But the Xv estension is useful and I can use the hardware rendering of opengl with progrmas like opendx. I hope this report is sufficiently clear. -- Raimondo Giammanco Ph.D. Candidate at EA Dept. of VKI
