Re: Can not boot with CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM=y on i686

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Wed Mar 24 2010 - 00:08:15 EST


On 03/23/2010 04:35 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:26:06AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>> After update to 2.6.34-rc1, I was experimented by strange oopses during
>>> boot, what looked like memory corruption. Bisection shows that first bad
>>> commit is 59be5a8e8ce765cf739ec7f07176219972de7481 ("x86: Make 32bit
>>> support NO_BOOTMEM"). When I disable CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM I'm able to start
>>> system. Not sure what info is need to track down this issue, so please
>>> let me know.
>>
>> can you check patch
>>
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/87081/
>
> Patch helps somehow. Instead of many random oopses, now I have one and
> the same oops, here is photo:
> http://people.redhat.com/sgruszka/20100322_001.jpg

how does e820 look like?

YH
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