Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 19:54:14 UTC 2006


Then you should post an nvidia-bug-report.log here, so someone can
look into the problem:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

On 8/1/06, Albert Graham <agraham at g-b.net> wrote:
> Thanks Dave,
>
> I do have Nvidia driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run) which is
> the latest version.
>
> Albert.
>
>
>
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:38:13PM +0100, Albert Graham wrote:
> >  > My machine just locked up, /var/log/messages show a single line message
> >  >
> >  > Aug  1 20:01:32 agraham kernel: Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative!
> >  > (-1)
> >
> > The only recent reports of this I've seen have been from users of the
> > nvidia binary module.  Is this the case here too ?
> > The reports did seem to tail off, so it's possible they fixed something
> > in their newer versions.
> >
> >               Dave
> >
> >  > The following is the log from a "BUG: soft lockup" I get today.
> >
> > May be related to the same problem. Something that should happen
> > in a split-second took an extraordinary time to complete, so the
> > kernel complained.


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