Re: BUG 2.3.23-pre5 locks up

Catalin Muresan (cata@codec.ro)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:47:44 +0300

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:39:44AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
viro> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
viro> > Oct 21 03:27:25 chief kernel: kernel BUG at filemap.c:65!
viro> [snip]
viro>
viro> Impressive. I got something interesting quite near that place - in
viro> pagemap.h:102 (inode's page list being nonempty with i_nrpages==0).
viro> And it's a UP box - SMP races have nothing with it. -pre4. I'm trying to
viro> cactch it right now. _Very_ reproducible - as the matter of fact it hits
viro> before the sucker gets to spawning getty. init=/bin/sh is your friend ;-/

i can trigger that too by running

watch -n 0 free

and watching the free memory decreasing and when it reaches a low
level it says bug at pagemap.h:102 and beeps forever. a ctrl-alt-del
works but hangs the machine on ifdown eth0.

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