Is "vm_fault" a kernel bug here?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:22:30PM +0100, Martin wrote:
> 
> Here is the result of a read access on a file, which is obviously
> unreadable:
> 
> acd0: FAILURE - READ BIG status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> sensekey=MEDIUM
> ERROR error=4<ABORTED>
> vm_fault: pager read error, pid 606 (cp)
> cp: filename: Bad address
> 
> I want to report it, because of the "vm_fault", it sounds "scary".
> Is this a correct behaviour or a bug in the kernel?

That's just what happens when an error is detected by the disk driver.
This can be caused by hardware failure or incompatibility, or a driver
bug.

Kris
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