Re: 2.6.1-rc2-mm1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 15:50:02 EST


Torrey Hoffman <thoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ... And another kernel error about two minutes later than the ones
> below. This happened while starting up my X desktop and apps. The
> gnome-notification-applet failed to start, and Mozilla doesn't appear
> start up properly for me in rc2-mm1. However, Evolution is sending and
> receiving mail ok...
>
> I'll reboot to -rc2-vanilla and see if I can reproduce the problem
> there. (same .config was used on both -rc2-vanilla and -rc2-mm1)
>
> Jan 8 12:18:27 moria kernel: <3>Debug: sleeping function called from
> invalid context at mm/page_alloc.c:550
> Jan 8 12:18:27 moria kernel: in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> Jan 8 12:18:27 moria kernel: Call Trace:
> Jan 8 12:18:27 moria kernel: [<c012420c>] __might_sleep+0xab/0xc9
> Jan 8 12:18:27 moria kernel: [<c0146d80>] __alloc_pages+0x341/0x346
> Jan 8 12:18:27 moria kernel: [<c011ee17>] pte_alloc_one+0x20/0x56
> Jan 8 12:18:27 moria kernel: [<c0150185>] pte_alloc_map+0x4e/0x111
> Jan 8 12:18:27 moria kernel: [<c014395f>]
> filemap_populate_nonblock+0x2a1/0x2ce

Yes, this one's a locking problem in the new filemap code.

I'm not sure why people are seeing oopses in the poll code - I hope
networking didn't break.

Oh well, it looks like 2.6.1-rc2-mm1 is a dud. I'll drop a few things and
do rc3-mm1 tonight.

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