On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > Hint: "ptep_mkdirty()".
rather obvious oopsie.. once spotted.
> In case you wonder why the bug was so insidious, what this caused was two
> separate problems, both of them able to cause SIGSGV's.
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > Not in my test tree. Same fault, and same trace leading up to it. no
>
> Ok.
>
> It definitely looks like a swapoff() problem.
>
> Have you ever seen the behaviour without running swapoff?
No.
>
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Linus Torvalds
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 5:19 AM
> To: Mike Galbraith
> Cc: Kernel Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> Ehh, I think I found it.
>
> Hint: "ptep_mkdirty()".
>
> Oops.
>
> I'll bet you $5 USD (and these days, that's about a gadzillion Euros) that
Poor European Gérard as slim as 1.84 meter - 78 Kg these days.
What about old days poor European L
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:35:57AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> Ehh, I think I found it.
>
> Hint: "ptep_mkdirty()".
>
> Oops.
>
> I'll bet you $5 USD (and these days, that's about a gadzillion Euros) that
> this explains it.
>
> Linus
Good. Sounds like you guys have a
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Hint: "ptep_mkdirty()".
In case you wonder why the bug was so insidious, what this caused was two
separate problems, both of them able to cause SIGSGV's.
One: we didn't mark the page table entry dirty like we were supposed to.
Two: by making it
Ehh, I think I found it.
Hint: "ptep_mkdirty()".
Oops.
I'll bet you $5 USD (and these days, that's about a gadzillion Euros) that
this explains it.
Linus
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> Not in my test tree. Same fault, and same trace leading up to it. no
Ok.
It definitely looks like a swapoff() problem.
Have you ever seen the behaviour without running swapoff?
Also, can you re-create it without running swapon() (if it's somet
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > Lookin gat "swapoff()", it could easily be something like
> >
> > - swapoff walks theough the processes, marking the pages dirty
> >(correctly)
> > - swapoff goes on to the next swap entry, and
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Lookin gat "swapoff()", it could easily be something like
>
> - swapoff walks theough the processes, marking the pages dirty
>(correctly)
> - swapoff goes on to the next swap entry, and because it needs memory for
>this, the VM layer wil
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:17:41PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jeff V. Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:22:55AM +0900, Rainer Mager wrote:
> >>I have a tiny bash script that launches a Java swing app. If I run my
> >> script f
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Rainer Mager wrote:
> Mike et al,
>
> I have no idea what IKD is and I don't know what to do with any results I
> might find BUT I'd be happy to do this if it will help. Please pass on the
> info with the instructions. Who should I report the results to?
IKD is a debu
Mike et al,
I have no idea what IKD is and I don't know what to do with any results I
might find BUT I'd be happy to do this if it will help. Please pass on the
info with the instructions. Who should I report the results to?
--Rainer
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Galbr
Give that man a cigarit was an env var (not LOCALE but LANG). I'd
actually checked this but I didn't think that made a difference in my case.
Thanks Linus, now can you fix the larger signal 11 problem?
--Rainer
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Linus Torvalds
> I'd guess that the pro
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Rainer Mager wrote:
> Thanks for the info...
>
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff V. Merkey
> > > So, is this related to the larger signal 11 problems?
> >
> > There's a corruption bug in the page cache somewhere, and it's 100%
> > reproducable. Finding it wi
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff V. Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:22:55AM +0900, Rainer Mager wrote:
>> I have a tiny bash script that launches a Java swing app. If I run my
>> script from an xterm (or gnome-terminal or whatever) then it starts up fine.
>>
Thanks for the info...
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff V. Merkey
> > So, is this related to the larger signal 11 problems?
>
> There's a corruption bug in the page cache somewhere, and it's 100%
> reproducable. Finding it will be tough
Ok, granted this will be tough but is
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:22:55AM +0900, Rainer Mager wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Ok, I just upgraded to 2.4.0test12 (although I don't think there was any
> work in 12 that directly addresses this signal 11 problem). When compiling
> the new kernel I chose to disable AGPGart and RDM as suggeste
Hi again,
Ok, I just upgraded to 2.4.0test12 (although I don't think there was any
work in 12 that directly addresses this signal 11 problem). When compiling
the new kernel I chose to disable AGPGart and RDM as suggested by
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I will report later if this makes any differenc
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