Re: Possible dcache BUG

[Andrew Morton]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> Now, this mornings logwatch told me I should go look at the 
>  logs again, and I found this had occurred several hours earlier:
>  -----------
>  Aug 14 18:53:24 coyote kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0058af03

This oops is the _cause_ of the out-of-memory condition.  The oopsing
process exitted while holding shrinker_sem, so slab will never again be
shrunk.

Any observed behaviour after an oops is almost always uninteresting, and
usually misleading.
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