From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: bentw@chello.nl (Ben Twijnstra)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 22:21:37 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1547yj-0002Mb-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01052722010200.01106@beastie> from "Ben Twijnstra" at May 27, 2001 10:01:02 PM
> I compiled and booted the 2.4.5-ac1 kernel with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y option
> and got an oops in __alloc_pages() (called by alloc_bounce() called by
> schedule()). Everything works fine if I turn the 4GB mode off.
> Machine is a Dell Precision with 2 Xeons and 2GB of RAM.
>
> 2.4.5 works fine with the 4GB. Any idea what changed between the two?
The -ac tree has some VM differences for bigmem that really need to be
cleaned up and/or removed now the Linus tree is looking solid. I'll probably
drop those diffs for -ac2 so that folks are working against one set of VM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-27 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-27 20:01 Ben Twijnstra
2001-05-27 21:03 ` Fabio Riccardi
2001-05-27 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-27 21:39 ` Fabio Riccardi
2001-05-27 21:21 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-05-28 7:34 ` Ben Twijnstra
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