Re: 2.6.4-mm1 - 4g patch breaks when X86_4G not selected

[Neil Brown]

On Monday March 15, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> That is useful, thanks.  Sorry about the hassle.
> 
> Calling page_address_init() earlier isn't the fix though - pmd pages aren't
> in highmem so we should never have got that far.  Looks like the pgd or the
> pmd page contains garbage.  Did you try it without
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB?

Without CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, it boots OK.

> 
> Nick was seeing slab 0x6b patterns on the NUMAQ, inside the pmd, so there's
> some consistency there.  We do have one early setup fix from Manfred, but
> it's unlikely to cure this.
> 
> I'll have a play with your .config, see if I can reproduce it.  If not I'll
> squeeze off -mm3 and would ask you to retest on that if poss.

When it comes, I'll test it.

thanks,
NeilBrown
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/