2.2.15-pre15 detects my memory wrong?

From: Nicholas Vinen (hb@sonique.com)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 17:33:40 EST

   Unless I add "mem=256M" to my boot arguments, 2.2.15-pre15 thinks I
have 64M. Did I configure something wrong? I copied my 2.2.13 config and
edited it in menuconfig.

        Nicholas Vinen 

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"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
their C programs."
                -- Robert Firth

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> For some configuration where there is only an initrd and no driver that
> schedule() during their initialization, the kernel gets to play with
> bdflush_tsk while the initrd is loading.  Because bdflush_tsk is
> initialized within a kernel thread which may not have run yet, we then
> just blow up!
> 
> Here is a quick fix:
> 
> diff -u 2.3.99-pre1-rmk1/linux/fs/buffer.c linux/fs/buffer.c
> --- 2.3.99-pre1/linux/fs/buffer.c	Sat Mar 18 16:50:31 2000
> +++ linux/fs/buffer.c	Sat Mar 18 17:08:49 2000
> @@ -2581,6 +2581,7 @@
>  {
>  	kernel_thread(bdflush, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND);
>  	kernel_thread(kupdate, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND);
> +	schedule();
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> 
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
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