Re: 2.4.19rc2 XFS oops trace

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 04:11:52PM -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
> I do not know if this is related to XFS or not, perhaps someone could 
> tell me if this needs to go elsewhere.

You have nvidia's binary-only driver loaded and this is the typical
nvidia oops.  We get this reports about one time all two weeks on this
list :P

Steve, Eric, what do you think about installing the following patch
(adopted from Red Hat rawhide) in CVS?

--- linux/mm/page_alloc.c~      Thu Jul  4 16:33:28 2002
+++ linux/mm/page_alloc.c       Thu Jul  4 16:33:28 2002
@@ -123,8 +123,12 @@
                return;
        if (page->buffers)
                BUG();
-       if (page->mapping)
+       if (page->mapping) {
+               printk(KERN_CRIT "Page has mapping still set. This is a serious 
situation. However if you \n");
+               printk(KERN_CRIT "are using the NVidia binary only module 
please report this bug to \n");
+               printk(KERN_CRIT "NVidia and not to the linux-xfs or linux 
kernel mailinglists.\n");
                BUG();
+       }
        if (!VALID_PAGE(page))
                BUG();
        if (PageSwapCache(page))