[U-Boot] Bad page state in process 'swapper'

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Nov 2 09:40:11 CET 2010


Dear "sywang",

In message <20101102073757.0C5E828093 at theia.denx.de> you wrote:
> 
> While U-boot loads the Linux image, I have the following error.   Do you
> have any suggestions on this? 
> 
> 
> detected lzma initramfs
> initramfs: LZMA lc=3,lp=0,pb=2,dictSize=8388608,origSize=12677632
> Bad page state in process 'swapper'
> page:a8000000007b3418 flags:0x0000000000000000 mapping:0000000000000000
> mapcount:-16711680 count:0
> Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
> Backtrace:
> Unwound Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff80211dc8>] dump_stack+0x8/0x48
> [<ffffffff80265c98>] bad_page+0x78/0xb0
> [<ffffffff80266988>] get_page_from_freelist+0x230/0x488
> [<ffffffff80266c44>] __alloc_pages+0x64/0x348
> [<ffffffff8027b4ac>] __vmalloc_area_node+0x10c/0x230
> [<ffffffff804741cc>] populate_rootfs+0x974/0xae0
> [<ffffffff802007e4>] init+0x84/0x530
> [<ffffffff8020db58>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18

These are Linux error messages.  This is the U-Boot mailing list.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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