From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:06:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: kernel: pageout: orphaned page with reiserfs v3 in data=journal mode under 2.6.18 Message-Id: <20061002180603.b19bfbd0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061002170353.GA26816@king.bitgnome.net> References: <20061002170353.GA26816@king.bitgnome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mark Nipper Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:03:54 -0500 Mark Nipper wrote: > I saw this in my logs earlier today: > --- > kernel: pageout: orphaned page > > It's the first time I've seen it on this box, but I also > just switched to data=journal mode for all of my reiserfs mounts > yesterday after a hard drive died in a software RAID-1 volume > (which incidentally caused some thankfully repairable file system > damage after a --rebuild-tree seemingly because even though the > hard drive which was failing was reporting uncorrectable errors > to the kernel, the software RAID system never failed the drive > out of the volume but instead kept trying to use it). > > Anyway, just wondering if the message is bad actually as > in it indicates some memory leak will bring down my server at > some point or if it's just a corner case which someone felt the > need to document whenever it happens. I think that's a piece of temporary debugging code which I put in there in a fit of curiosity and which I then promptly forgot about. It's been in there since March 2005 and you are the first person who has reported seeing the message... -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org