Re: 2.4.1-pre8 losing pages

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:48:05 +0000 (GMT)

Peter Horton writes:
> The corruption is dependent on having a swapped on swap partition. If I
> "swapoff" the corruption goes away, but it comes back when I "swapon"
> again. I feel this a kernel bug, but as I'm the only person out here who's
> seeing it I'm at a loss ...

What compiler are you using?

The reason I ask is that on an ARM box running plain 2.4.0 with swap
enabled I get rather a lot of SEGVs. Turn swap off, and I don't see
any.

It sounds like it may be related.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
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