Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:98 -- compiling with distcc

[Marco Fais]

Andrew Morton ha scritto:

> > kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:98!
> uh-oh.

That was the same thing that I've said when I saw all the leds blinking 
in *all* the keyboards ... :)

> distcc uses sendfile().  The 8139too hardware and driver are
> zerocopy-capable so the kernel uses zerocopy direct-from-user-pages for
> sendfile().

Ok. Other servers with e100 driver doesn't show the problem. This means 
that they're not "zerocopy-capable"?

> This was all discussed fairly extensively a couple of years back and I
> thought it ended up being fixed.

There are any workarounds for this, until the problem is corrected?

Thank you very much.


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