Re: Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related?

From: Kai Makisara
Date: Sat Feb 04 2006 - 06:56:21 EST


On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Ryan Richter wrote:
> >
...
> > The st problem (Bad page state,
> > mapcount 2 while count 0, from sgl_unmap_user_pages) ought to be a lot
> > easier to debug than a random reboot: but I've still no suggestion.
>
> I guessed it last week, Ryan verified that booting with "iommu=nomerge"
> worked around it, and then that the 2.6.15 patch below fixes it.
>

I have tested the patch and did not find any problems. I suppose you will
send this to the stable team for inclusion into 2.6.15.x? You can add

Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for fixing this problem.

--
Kai
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