BTW, I posted a fix for a bug in the 2.6 page table attribute settings for PPC440 that cause corruption when swapping. I don't know if is the same for 2.4.
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=1458 -Geoff Bogdan Antonovici wrote: > Dan, > > It hasn't crashed since i corrected that pointer initialization in > driver. You were right. > Thank you. > Bogdan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Malek <mailto:dan at embeddededge.com> > To: bogdan antonovici <mailto:bantonovici at priority.mb.ca> > Cc: linuxppc-dev <mailto:linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org> ; > linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org <mailto:linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org> ; > ppckernel <mailto:ppckernel at ppckernel.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:59 PM > Subject: Re: swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 00480020 > > > On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:29 AM, bogdan antonovici wrote: > > >>At the time of swap messages i was running a proprietary driver, my >>application and few daemons. > > > Looks like your driver may have written over some of the page > tables in the kernel space. > > >>I look on the net for some clues but it's quite confusing, i noticed >>many emails on swap_dup/swap_free error messages but i couldn't figure >>out what should i search for. > > > Those messages are likely due to a bug with swapping to disk > that has been in some 2.4 kernels, but I don't believe that is > the case here, since you don't have a disk or swapping enabled. > > > -- Dan > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
