>Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>
>> Jul 9 18:27:30 munchkin kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
>> Jul 9 18:27:30 munchkin kernel: pte 6a8042, vma flags 00000070, page
> ^^^^^^
>> flags 0000028c, count 2
>> Jul 9 18:27:30 munchkin kernel: page=c0206f80@0017da00, found=c0206f80,
>> count=3
>
>The pte value above is very puzzling -- it says that the page is not
>present, in which case the "writable" bit means PROT_NONE, not writable.
>The pte value is tested immediately after dereferencing the page table
>to make sure it's present, so I don't see how we could reach this point
>without the page being present.
>
>Maybe this is a compiler bug after all ...
Could it be a storage overlay?
john alvord
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