Re: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!

Magnus Sjoegren (dat98msj@student3.lu.se)
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:36:59 +0200 (MET DST)


Article: <35BC950B.F207EFFF@transmeta.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 07:56:11 -0700
Author: Bill Hawes <whawes@transmeta.com>

> Magnus Sjoegren wrote:
>
> > This can be reproduced if you use nestscape simultaneous with your
> > favorite console svgalib application (squake, zgv etc).
> >
> > Jul 27 02:21:25 atlas kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
> > Jul 27 02:21:25 atlas kernel: page=c0226330@00084800, found=c0226330,
> > count=3
>
> Are you sure you're getting this with 2.1.111? The apparent cause of this
> problem was fixed recently, in 2.1.109 IIRC.
>

Yes, I see this with both 110 and 111.
Here is the output of the diagnostic patch made by Stephen C.
Tweedie (sct@redhat.com).

Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: page=c0234ac0@00065200, found=c0234ac0,
count=3
Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: pte 871047, vma flags 000000fb, page
flags 0000028c, count 2
Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: page=c023f530@00065800, found=c023f530,
count=3
Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: pte 489047, vma flags 000000fb, page
flags 0000028c, count 2
Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: page=c02339b0@00065c00, found=c02339b0,
count=3
Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: pte 72c047, vma flags 000000fb, page
flags 0000028c, count 2
Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: page=c023b840@00065e00, found=c023b840,
count=3
Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: VM: Found a writable swap-cached page!
Jul 27 17:32:31 atlas kernel: pte 909047, vma flags 000000fb, page
flags 0000028c, count 2

Tell me if you want longer logs.
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Magnus Sjögren <dat98msj@student3.lu.se>

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