Re: more info for last message (bug at page_alloc.c:102)

[Marc-Christian Petersen]

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On Thursday 05 June 2003 14:04, Thomas Kaeding wrote:

Hi Thomas.

> Here is more info that you might need.  The problem occurred overnight.
> In the morning, the mouse worked until I tried to start an app
> in KDE, then everything froze.  Ctl-alt-bkspc gave only a black screen.
> I had to hit restart.
> NVdriver             1065216  10
well, this won't help you right now, but you know how to proceed if you read 
the attached patch. It fits your situation ;)

ciao, Marc

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diff -urN a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c	Sat Aug  3 17:08:40 2002
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c	Thu Oct 17 16:42:24 2002
@@ -98,8 +98,12 @@
 
 	if (page->buffers)
 		BUG();
-	if (page->mapping)
-		BUG();
+	if (page->mapping) {
+		printk(KERN_CRIT "Page has mapping still set. This is a serious situation. However if you\n");
+		printk(KERN_CRIT "are using the NVidia binary only module please report this bug to\n");
+		printk(KERN_CRIT "NVidia and not to the Linux Kernel Mailinglist!\n");
+ 		BUG();
+	}
 	if (!VALID_PAGE(page))
 		BUG();
 	if (PageLocked(page))

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