Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 08:10:45 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: nash@mcs.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vnode_pager_output: attempt to write meta-data Message-ID: <199604271510.IAA02693@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Apr 1996 08:30:41 CDT." <199604271330.IAA19054@zen.nash.org>
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>This message popped up this morning in my syslog:
>
> vnode_pager_output: attempt to write meta-data!!! -- 0xfffe8000(ff)
>
>Which comes from vnode_pager_output (vm/vnode_pager.c):
>
> if ((int) m[0]->offset < 0) {
> printf("vnode_pager_output: attempt to write meta-data!!! -- 0x%x(%x)\n", m[0]->offset, m[0]->dirty);
> rtvals[0] = VM_PAGER_BAD;
> return VM_PAGER_BAD;
> }
>
>Do I assume correctly that the system is in an unstable state and I
>should now reboot?
No, it simply indicates that we somehow detected that a meta-data page was
modified. It's a fairly benign bug that is believed to be fixed in the latest
changes to pmap.c. I do recommend re-supping -stable, however, to pick up the
fixes.
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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