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

Albert Graham agraham at g-b.net
Tue Aug 1 19:51:39 UTC 2006


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.
>
> 		Dave
>
>   




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