Re: Trying to vfree nonexistent vm area

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 00:46:43 +0100 (BST)


> Jun 23 00:10:34 mylly kernel: ext2_truncate: inode 124663, retrying

Thats fine

> Jun 23 00:28:32 mylly kernel: Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area
> (c6869000)
> Jun 23 00:28:32 mylly kernel: Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area
> (c6869000)

Definitely bad

> harmless? They last two look scary ... Hmmm, I think they're coming from
> mm/vmalloc.c.

Something tried to free memory it forgot to allocate. Extremely bad in
fact.

> I didn't do anything special, first compiled wine and then tried to use
> it. With 96M I don't think it was swapping too much, but can't say for
> sure.

See if WINE is what trips it. Its the one oddity I can think of

> Kernel 2.1.106ac4 compiled with gcc-2.7.2.3. It has been up for almost two
> hours. UP kernel on an UP machine.

Can you mail me (privately) the full config for the box

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