Re: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver

["Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 18:37 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Roland> I think you should always be doing a get_page().
> 
>     Bryan> Yeah.  I think so too, but when I do it, I get an oops.
> 
> Hmm, looking at that oops might help debug your problem.

This is what it looks like when I always call get_page in my nopage
handler (after checking that the pfn is valid and pfn_to_page hasn't
given me junk).

Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'mpi_hello', page ffff810002098af8)
flags:0x0100000000000404 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:0 count:0 (Not tainted)
Backtrace:

Call Trace:<ffffffff80169577>{bad_page+135} <ffffffff8016a743>{free_hot_cold_page+112}
       <ffffffff8016a839>{__pagevec_free+41} <ffffffff801710ba>{release_pages+331}
       <ffffffff8017fce9>{free_pages_and_swap_cache+125} <ffffffff80176953>{unmap_vmas+1186}
       <ffffffff80179a58>{exit_mmap+124} <ffffffff80139fe6>{mmput+37}
       <ffffffff8013f2d4>{do_exit+584} <ffffffff8013fdd1>{sys_exit_group+0}
       <ffffffff80149fd9>{get_signal_to_deliver+1594} <ffffffff8010f23a>{do_signal+116}
       <ffffffff8011017e>{retint_signal+61}
Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed


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