From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263592AbTJQTEl (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:04:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263591AbTJQTEl (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:04:41 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:51400 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263585AbTJQTER (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:04:17 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test7-mm1 4G/4G hanging at boot From: Paul Larson To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: lkml , mingo@redhat.com, linux-mm In-Reply-To: <20031017111955.439d01c8.rddunlap@osdl.org> References: <20031017111955.439d01c8.rddunlap@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 17 Oct 2003 14:03:44 -0500 Message-Id: <1066417426.19236.3316.camel@plars> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 13:19, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > I'm seeing this at boot: > > Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... > > then I wait for 1-2 minutes and hit the power button. > This is on an IBM dual-proc P4 (non-HT) with 1 GB of RAM. > > Has anyone else seen this? Suggestions or fixes? > This was a problem a while back with a bad check fixed by this patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test3/2.6.0-test3-mm2/broken-out/4g4g-do_page_fault-cleanup.patch I can't seem to find that it slipped back in anywhere but the problem sounds identical (minus an error message about invalid kernel-mode pagefault before). -Paul Larson