Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request.

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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.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>

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