Re: [PATCH v10 Golden] Unified trace buffer

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> > * Steven Rostedt (rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > 
> > You should have a look at mm/slob.c free_slob_page(). I think your page
> > free will generate a "bad_page" call due to mapping != NULL and mapcount
> > != 0. I just ran into this in my own code. :)
> 
> 
> Hi Mathieu!
> 
> Thanks! I must have been lucky some how not to trigger this :-/
> 

My guess is that you never free your buffers in your test cases. I don't
know if it was expected; probably not if your code is built into the
kernel.

Mathieu

> I'll add an update patch for this.
> 
> -- Steve
> 

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