Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1) - Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:590

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

System reboots with following kernel errors:

kernel: Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)
kernel:   page->flags = a88100000000060
kernel:   page->count = 1
kernel:   page->mapping = ffff810a8b7c6f79
kernel: ----------- [cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] ---------
kernel: Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:590
kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP·

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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