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

[Dave Jones]

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.

		Dave

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