Re: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:491

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:35, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Chen, Kenneth W writes:
> > Con Kolivas wrote on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:24 PM
> >
> >> Chen, Kenneth W writes:
> >> > Has people seen this BUG_ON before?  On 2.6.15-rc2, x86-64.
> >> >
> >> > Pid: 16500, comm: cc1 Tainted: G    B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
> >> >
> >> > Pid: 16651, comm: sh Tainted: G    B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
> >>
> >>                        ^^^^^^^^^^
> >>
> >> Please try to reproduce it without proprietary binary modules linked in.
> >
> > ???, I'm not using any modules at all.
> >
> > [albat]$ /sbin/lsmod
> > Module                  Size  Used by
> > [albat]$
> >
> >
> > Also, isn't it 'P' indicate proprietary module, not 'G'?
> > line 159: kernel/panic.c:
> >
> >         snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "Tainted: %c%c%c%c%c%c",
> >                 tainted & TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE ? 'P' : 'G',
>
> Sorry it's not proprietary module indeed. But what is tainting it?

Probably a prior oops or some other marked error condition.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
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