From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265466AbUBFNoj (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:44:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265467AbUBFNoj (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:44:39 -0500 Received: from intra.cyclades.com ([64.186.161.6]:63209 "EHLO intra.cyclades.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265466AbUBFNog (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:44:36 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:44:19 -0200 (BRST) From: Marcelo Tosatti X-X-Sender: marcelo@logos.cnet To: Michael Frank Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.25-rc1: BUG: wrong zone alignment, it will crash In-Reply-To: <200402061735.07726.mhf@linuxmail.org> Message-ID: References: <200402061735.07726.mhf@linuxmail.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Cyclades-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Cyclades-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Michael Frank wrote: > As with 2.4.24, using the highmem option causes the BUG message. > > This is a kernel ex BK without any patches. > > Linux version 2.4.25-rc1 (root@mhfl4) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #5 Fri Feb 6 17:27:18 HKT 2004 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001eff0000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000001eff0000 - 000000001eff3000 (ACPI NVS) > BIOS-e820: 000000001eff3000 - 000000001f000000 (ACPI data) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > 300MB HIGHMEM available. > 195MB LOWMEM available. > On node 0 totalpages: 126960 > zone(0): 4096 pages. > zone(1): 46064 pages. > zone(2): 76800 pages. > BUG: wrong zone alignment, it will crash > Kernel command line: vga=0xf07 root=/dev/hda4 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8r devfs=nomount nousb acpi=off highmem=300m > Initializing CPU#0 > Detected 2399.771 MHz processor. > Console: colour VGA+ 80x60 > Calibrating delay loop... 4784.12 BogoMIPS > Memory: 498696k/507840k available (1589k kernel code, 8756k reserved, 676k data, 120k init, 307200k highmem) > > The kernel seems to experience stability problems. Michael, This is totally bogus, you dont have highmem available. Dont use highmem=.