I am not sure this is a fixed problem in 2.6.11-rc2 based on my read of the changelog, hence this email. Here is the summary:
1. I started with vanilla 2.6.10 where I replaced ieee1394 drivers from trunk rev 1251 patched in. My kernel is tainted due to ndiswrapper that loads windows drivers for my wireless PCI card. One out of 4 times I actually booted 2.6.10 and manually brought up wlan0 I got 'reboot needed etc messages' . Please note that using similar approach in 2.6.8 does not cause this issue. Following is the error in /var/log/messages ( I did not paste everything to be brief): Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: Bad page state at prep_new_page (in process 'net_applet', page c1323a00) Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: flags:0x20000004 mapping:00000000 mapcount:1 count:1 Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: Backtrace: Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: [dump_stack+30/32] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20 Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: [<c0103cde>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20 Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: [bad_page+117/176] bad_page+0x75/0xb0 Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: [<c013c1b5>] bad_page+0x75/0xb0 Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: [prep_new_page+40/112] prep_new_page+0x28/0x70 Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: [<c013c4d8>] prep_new_page+0x28/0x70 ##### Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483! Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: invalid operand: 0000 [#1] Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: Modules linked in: mga md5 ipv6 snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc gameport snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore af_packet fealnx mii eth1394 ide_cd cdrom ohci1394 ieee1394 loop ntfs nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat ndiswrapper via_agp agpgart uhci_hcd usbcore genrtc ext3 jbd Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: CPU: 0 Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: EIP: 0060:[page_remove_rmap+53/64] Tainted: P B VLI Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c014bec5>] Tainted: P B VLI Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.10jry) Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: EIP is at page_remove_rmap+0x35/0x40 Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: eax: ffffffff ebx: 00389000 ecx: c0399d54 edx: c1323a00 Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: esi: d3b06f44 edi: 003b8000 ebp: d39ebd2c esp: d39ebd2c Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: Process net_applet (pid: 9326, threadinfo=d39ea000 task=d6a8d060) Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: Stack: d39ebd58 c0145a67 c1323a00 c0139256 dffccabc d5a1af08 191d0045 c1323a00 Jan 22 08:26:58 localhost kernel: 08848000 d3b5b088 08800000 d39ebd88 c0145c10 c0399d54 d3b5b084 08448000 2. I patched in Hugh's patch to 2.6.10 and recompiled. At reboot I ran memtest86 v 1.26, 3 times without any error. Then rebooting in 2.6.10 and doing ifup wlan0 gave me system freeze and unfortunately nothing in the log. Since then I have not seen the same error again after 3 reboots and 2-3 cold boots followed by ifup. I also tried cycles of ifdown and ifup without any errors. 3. I am not sure if I should post my whole config here hence I just pasting DRM related entries here in reference to your original email to Jose`. I have VIA motherboard and a matrox agp card, [FWIW most of the config is same as for 2.6.8 kernel that did not show the rmap sympton] CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_MGA=m I will be glad to provide any other info needed. You may bcc to my email if this is better discussed off the list. [Although I will anxiously check lkml.org everyday or use RSS feed]. I am not subsribed as We are not worthy :-) Thanks, Jay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
