From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:39:35 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: Oops in pte_chain_alloc (rmap 12h applied to vanilla 2.4.18) (fwd) Message-ID: <20020606003935.A29285@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from mchapman@beren.hn.org on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:29:18PM +1000 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Michael Chapman Cc: Jonathan Morton , Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:29:18PM +1000, Michael Chapman wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > >I compiled this kernel with gcc 2.96. > > > > I understood you weren't supposed to do that. Try 2.95.3. > > OK, I've now tried that. It still crashes on the same line of code. This looks like a memory corruption footprint: Jun 3 09:58:02 beren kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 14000000 Have you tried running memtest86 on the machine? A few bugzilla reports have turned up with similar footprints that have all turned out to be bad ram, so it is worth investigating. -ben -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/