2.4.24 HIGHMEM=300m: BUG: wrong zone alignment, it will crash

From: Michael Frank
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 22:27:47 EST


System has 500M RAM. When using highmem=300m dmesg as follows.

Linux version 2.4.24-mhf168 (root@mhfl4) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Feb 6 11:08:28 HKT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001eff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001eff0000 - 000000001eff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001eff3000 - 000000001f000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
300MB HIGHMEM available.
195MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 126960
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 46064 pages.
zone(2): 76800 pages.
BUG: wrong zone alignment, it will crash
Kernel command line: vga=0xf07 root=/dev/hda4 resume2=swap:/dev/hda1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8r devfs=nomount nousb acpi=off highmem=300m

What went wrong ?

Michael

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