[PATCH] Bad page state mapcount
A small change to the tests for "Bad page state", to avoid one class of the page_remove_rmap BUG reports, giving more information while letting the system continue: check page_mapcount (_mapcount != -1) rather than page_mapped (_mapcount >= 0). And how does _mapcount go bad? In the case under study, it looks sure now that an overheating(?) Pentium III sometimes gets confused by a pair of instructions in the no-buddy-bitmap __free_pages_bulk, and clears the PG_private bit from the _mapcount field while buddying around - changing PG_private value changes the bit cleared from _mapcount. Bad page state mapcount:-4096 would have tracked this down much sooner, and will be recognizable if other cpus show the same aberrant reaction to 2.6.11. The page_remove_rmap BUG does need to be replaced by more permissive and informative handling, but I'm not yet ready to to finalize such a patch. Please admit Colin Harrison to the Order of the Iridescent Penguin, for his tireless testing. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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