panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry

[Jos Backus]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:48:07AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> This looks similar to the panics I was seeing.
> 
> Alan has posted the following patch:
[patch elided]
> Can you also give it a try?
 
cvsupped and building a new kernel now.

> I'm building a new kernel with the patch as I type this, but I can't
> reliably reproduce the panic all the time.  It seems to be triggered
> more often when I fire up mplayer, but that's merely a "guess".

It tends to happen when I am using Firefox, which uses mplayer as a plugin, so
our symptoms _may_ be related.

Thanks for the patch, Giorgos.

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Jos Backus
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