Re: architecture bootup changes..

Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:43:02 +0200


Paul Mackerras wrote:

> I have pre-2.3.23-5 running on my PPC (an Apple G3 powerbook) but it
> crashes as soon as it starts to use swap, with a kernel bug at
> include/linux/pagemap.h:105, in kswapd. The stack trace is:
>
> add_page_to_inode_queue (inline in add_to_page_cache)
> add_to_page_cache
> add_to_swap_cache
> try_to_swap_out
> swap_out_vma
> swap_out_mm
> swap_out
> do_try_to_free_pages
> kswapd
>
> Have others seen this problem, or is it a PPC-specific stuff-up of mine?
> :-)

I've also seen a hard lock up (w/o any message) when the initscript
tried to enable swap on x86. Not yet investigated though.

Tom

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