Re: pre 2.0.31: try_to_free_page

Thomas Koenig (ig25@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Thu, 8 May 1997 17:40:07 +0200 (MET DST)

root wrote:
>
>eggz kernel: try_to_free_page: state(0) stop(1735560) i(0) sleep instead of fail

Did you apply the extra patch from Hubert Mantel? Here it is, in case
you've missed it:

From: From: Hubert Mantel <mantel@suse.de>

Pre-2.0.31 needs this little patch:

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diff -urN linux-pre2.0.31/mm/vmscan.c linux-pre2.0.31-new/mm/vmscan.c
--- linux-pre2.0.31/mm/vmscan.c Thu May 8 11:36:15 1997
+++ linux-pre2.0.31-new/mm/vmscan.c Thu May 8 11:38:03 1997
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
/* This should never return failure, instead it should sleep
* and try again.
*/
- printk("try_to_free_page: state(%d) stop(%d) i(%d) sleep instead of fail\n");
+ printk("try_to_free_page: state(%d) stop(%d) i(%d) sleep instead of fail\n", state, stop, i);
schedule();
stop = 9;
goto we_slept;
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