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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dan,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It hasn't crashed since i corrected that pointer
initialization in driver. You were right.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bogdan</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=dan@embeddededge.com href="mailto:dan@embeddededge.com">Dan Malek</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bantonovici@priority.mb.ca
href="mailto:bantonovici@priority.mb.ca">bogdan antonovici</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
href="mailto:linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org">linuxppc-dev</A> ; <A
title=linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
href="mailto:linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org">linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org</A> ;
<A title=ppckernel@ppckernel.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 21, 2005 12:59
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: swap_dup: Bad swap file
entry 00480020</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:29 AM, bogdan antonovici
wrote:<BR><BR>> At the time of swap messages i was running a proprietary
driver, my<BR>> application and few daemons.<BR><BR>Looks like your driver
may have written over some of the page<BR>tables in the kernel
space.<BR><BR>> I look on the net for some clues but it's quite confusing,
i noticed<BR>> many emails on swap_dup/swap_free error messages but i
couldn't figure<BR>> out what should i search for.<BR><BR>Those messages
are likely due to a bug with swapping to disk<BR>that has been in some 2.4
kernels, but I don't believe that is<BR>the case here, since you don't have a
disk or swapping enabled.<BR><BR><BR>-- Dan<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>