Re: [oops] linux-2.4.14-pre2 - __remove_from_queues+14/28

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2001 - 15:07:43 EST


In article <20011027144624.A11364@lnuxlab.ath.cx>,
khromy <khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx> wrote:
>If you need more info, let me know.

Have you had any memory trouble or similar with this machine?

It looks very much like a single-bit error:

>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00100000
>c012e694
>*pde = 00000000
>Oops: 0002
>CPU: 0
>EIP: 0010:[<c012e694>] Not tainted
>Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
>EFLAGS: 00010246
>eax: 00000000 ebx: c3135920 ecx: c3135920 edx: 00100000
>esi: c3135a40 edi: c3135a40 ebp: c10c4bc0 esp: c1311f2c

Here "edx" appears to be bh->b_pprev pointer, which can quite validly be
NULL for a non-hashed page.

So a value of all zeroes, or a kernel pointer value (ie 0xC.....) would
be valid, but 0x00100000 is not.

It doesn't have to be bad memory, of course - it could easily be a wild
pointer and a bit set operation.. But.

                Linus
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