|> I've done some more digging, and the problem is related to the amount
|> of RAM. I have 1 GiB, which is causing kmalloc() in 2.3.16 to fail
|> with GFP_ATOMIC|GFP_DMA. Note that 2.3.3 is fine.
|> If I boot 2.3.16 with mem=828M, then it's fine. If I boot with
|> mem=829M, then kmalloc() fails.
While there may be a kmalloc boundary problem, I see that 2.3
still has the problem in drivers/scsi/scsi.c where:
1) The GFP_DMA flag is set for the Scsi_Cmnd allocation
even for non isa_dma devices, and
2) There is a gratuitous memset after the scsi_init_malloc
(which does a memset itself) which will ooops if the
GFP_DMA allocation fails.
The memsets at the front of scan_scsis() should be removed.
scott
|>
|> Regards,
|>
|> Richard....
|> Old: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
|> Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
|>
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