Re: BUG: 2.4.18 invalid operand: 0000

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz)
Sun, 16 Jun 2002 12:03:07 +0200 (SAST)


On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Ricardo Galli wrote:

> invalid operand: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[__free_pages_ok+40/500] Tainted: P
> EFLAGS: 00010286
> eax: 00000000 ebx: c1834000 ecx: c149cd80 edx: d9c0a530
> esi: c149cd80 edi: 00000000 ebp: c149cd80 esp: c1835f2c
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process kswapd (pid: 4, stackpage=c1835000)
> Stack: c1834000 c149cd9c c1834000 c149cd80 000001d0 c1834000 c149cd9c c012cfb4
> c012de17 c012cff9 00000020 000001d0 00000020 00000006 000001fb 000019d0
> 000001d0 c02d4ba8 0000001c c012d292 00000006 0000001a 00000006 000001d0
> Call Trace: [shrink_cache+584/1000] [__free_pages+27/28] [shrink_cache+653/1000] [shrink_caches+86/124] [try_to_free_pages+55/88]
> [kswapd_balance_pgdat+67/140] [kswapd_balance+18/40] [kswapd+153/188] [kernel_thread+40/56]

Firstly the kernel is in an undefined state if it undergoes an oops (in
most cases), secondly thats the nVidia module which caused that, i've seen
it quite a number of times, easily reproduceable too. I don't encourage
its use but if thats not the latest driver, try upgrading it.

Regards,
Zwane Mwaikambo

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