On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 16:53:54 -0800, Can Sar wrote: > I get an oops with the error message "Unable to handle kernel paging > request....". I am using vmalloc to allocate memory. Does this error > mean that I sleeping on a paging request from swap or could I just be > accessing a messed up pointer? (as in, does it necessarily imply the > former, or not) It does not say anything about sleeping. Just that you are accessing a page that is not there. Anyway, you want to pass it through ksymoops to get a symbolic backtrace so you know where exactly it happened. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
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