Re: 2.3.43-pre[25] do not work with HIGHMEM=64GB

From: Christoph Rohland (hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 03:44:39 EST


Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> writes:

> On 10 Feb 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
>
> > With Stevens patch 2.3.43-5 works again for me.
> >
> > But during shm tests I get:
> >
> > hm #1: c113a2a0, c113a0c0.
>
> > Trace; c022b2cc <call_spurious_interrupt+253b/91b7>
>
> it's not necesserily a bug (in fact it's a valid scenario) - are these
> messages also accompanied by bad application behavior or kernel crashes?
>
> if you still see problems then you might want to try Manfred's debugging
> patchset he sent yesterday.
>
> If no real problems apart from these messages, then could you apply
> smp-2.3.43-E1 (attached) to pre8-2.3.43, it removes some paranoia and
> debugging stuff. (also fixes the small window for a deadlock scenario
> Manfred noticed, plus does the tlb_state initialization at compile time)
> (pre8 already includes Stephen's fix as well)

I tested pre8-2.3.43+smp-2.3.43-E0:

With pagecache in highmem I got the first oops.

With pagecache restricted to GFP_USER I got loads of the hm #1
messages and then the second oops.

Greetings
                Christoph

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