Re: problem with linux 2.2.15pre4 + Rik's VM fix

From: glouis@dynamicro.on.ca
Date: Fri Jan 28 2000 - 13:25:27 EST


On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Jorgen Skjaanes wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > >
> > > The adress is outside the kernel, it's map is ending at:
> > > c024c6dc A _end
> > >
> > > (and grep c9f /proc/ksyms gives nothing)
> >
> > c9* will be in your modules. If you reload the modules you can by hand using
> > insmod -m to get symbol tables you can track it down
>
> I can't find the address in the modules-map table either.
>
> And I can even unload all modules so that I have:
> [root@pimp /root]# /sbin/lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> [root@pimp /root]# date
> Fri Jan 28 14:55:23 CET 2000
>
> and I still get:
> Jan 28 14:57:04 pimp kernel: kmem_cache_alloc called by non-running (2) task from c9fff8c0!
> Jan 28 14:58:29 pimp kernel: kmem_cache_alloc called by non-running (1) task from c9fff8c0!
> Jan 28 14:59:04 pimp last message repeated 2 times
> Jan 28 14:59:11 pimp kernel: kmem_cache_alloc called by non-running (1) task from c9fff920!
> Jan 28 14:59:11 pimp kernel: kmem_cache_alloc called by non-running (1) task from c9fff8c0!
>
See also Petri Kaukasoina's report and mine. Both of us are seeing
this: he, with 56Mb, at c3ff78c0 and 920, and I, with 64Mb, at c3fff8c0
and 920. Petri doesn't use modules and I've only got one loaded;
according to /proc/ksyms, it starts at c4806000.

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