"Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative!" and Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:587 on RHEL5

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Xen dom0 crash with the following message:
Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1) 
 page->flags = 80000
 page->count = 0
 page->mapping = 0000000000000000
----------- [cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] ---------
Kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:587

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2      
    • 2.6.18-92.1.1
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3
    • 2.6.18-128.el5
    • 2.6.18-128.el5xen
    • 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5
    • 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
    • 2.6.18-164.el5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 
    • 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5

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