On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 20:52 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Friday 03 November 2006 20:47, Amul Shah wrote: > > > Andi, Vivek is right. We can use end_pfn_map. My observation is wrong. > > Ok. Then my patch should work?
The patch does work on a 2.6.16 derived kernel (SLES 10 kernel). The 2.6.19-rc4 kernel is doing some funny things when I use it as a kdump kernel (regardless of the patch). > > Vivek, the problem condition is in generic reserve_bootmem_core > > (mm/bootmem.c), where this > > BUG_ON(PFN_DOWN(addr) >= bdata->node_low_pfn); > > checks the target address against the top of that node's memory. > > In general these early BUGs should be eliminated - they are always > messy because the kernel exception handlers are not fully functional > yet. printks or worst case panics are better. > > -Andi I assume that we are not going to change mm/bootmem.c since your patch works. Am I right? Amul _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
