Re: [PATCH] CRIS v10: vmlinux.lds.S Fix kernel oops on boot and use common defines

2008-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:35:15PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:36:24 +0100 Jesper Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - Move alignment to page size of init data outside ifdef for BLK_DEV_INITRD. > > The reservation up to page size of memory after init data was previ

Re: [PATCH] CRIS v10: vmlinux.lds.S Fix kernel oops on boot and use common defines

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:36:24 +0100 Jesper Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Move alignment to page size of init data outside ifdef for BLK_DEV_INITRD. > The reservation up to page size of memory after init data was previously > not done if BLK_DEV_INITRD was undefined. > This caused a k

Re: [PATCH] CRIS v10: vmlinux.lds.S Fix kernel oops on boot and use common defines

2008-01-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > What about applying the same fixes/changes to v32? > > In the works. > > > It would btw. be nice to move the vmlinux.lds.S files to > > arch/cris/kernel/. > > Se how x86 handle build for two different bit sizes. > > > > If this is done then cris is less awkward compared > > to the other arch

Re: [PATCH] CRIS v10: vmlinux.lds.S Fix kernel oops on boot and use common defines

2008-01-15 Thread Jesper Nilsson
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:54:19PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:36:24PM +0100, Jesper Nilsson wrote: > > - Move alignment to page size of init data outside ifdef for BLK_DEV_INITRD. > > The reservation up to page size of memory after init data was previously > > not d

Re: [PATCH] CRIS v10: vmlinux.lds.S Fix kernel oops on boot and use common defines

2008-01-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:36:24PM +0100, Jesper Nilsson wrote: > - Move alignment to page size of init data outside ifdef for BLK_DEV_INITRD. > The reservation up to page size of memory after init data was previously > not done if BLK_DEV_INITRD was undefined. > This caused a kernel oops whe

[PATCH] CRIS v10: vmlinux.lds.S Fix kernel oops on boot and use common defines

2008-01-15 Thread Jesper Nilsson
- Move alignment to page size of init data outside ifdef for BLK_DEV_INITRD. The reservation up to page size of memory after init data was previously not done if BLK_DEV_INITRD was undefined. This caused a kernel oops when init memory pages were freed after startup, data placed in the same

Re: PROBLEM: kernel oops on boot in 2.4.0 test10

2000-11-06 Thread Brad Corsello
> > >> Trace; c0194d36 > > >Do you have any ISAPNP cards in your system? > > Yes, a Soundblaster AWE64 that has never given me any problems. I tried > booting > test10 and test1 with that card pulled, and they both still oopsed on boot. > > Jeff, I recompiled test10 with all kernel ISA PN

Re: PROBLEM: kernel oops on boot in 2.4.0 test10

2000-11-05 Thread Brad Corsello
Jeff, thank you for responding. >Can you play the kernel shuffle, and narrow down exactly which kernel >version breaks for you? Read, from the linux source tree, >Documentation/BUG-HUNTING. OK. I've compiled test1, and it also oopsed on boot. (Which is confusing, since I know for sure I had t

Re: PROBLEM: kernel oops on boot in 2.4.0 test10

2000-11-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Brad Corsello wrote: > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > kernel oops on boot in 2.4.0 test 10 (i386) > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > On every boot of test 10, I get a kernel oops very early on. > Is reproducibl

PROBLEM: kernel oops on boot in 2.4.0 test10

2000-11-04 Thread Brad Corsello
[1.] One line summary of the problem: kernel oops on boot in 2.4.0 test 10 (i386) [2.] Full description of the problem/report: On every boot of test 10, I get a kernel oops very early on. Is reproducible (happens every boot). I've successfully booted 2.3 ke

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Brian Gerst
Mircea Damian wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:20:45AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > > Mircea Damian wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: > > > > Upgrade GCC to 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2) > > Ok. I can do that, but there is nowhere written that

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Mircea Damian
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:20:45AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > Mircea Damian wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: > > Upgrade GCC to 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2) Ok. I can do that, but there is nowhere written that I should do that. If I remember right gc

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Brian Gerst wrote: > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > Stand-alone, it can't do anything useful. However, if it generates > > a page-fault due to the read or write, the page-fault handler could > > do "something". Currently, the fault it fatal, probably because > > the passed p

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Mitchell Blank Jr
Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > And here is the broken routine: > > > > 03f4 : [...] > This is not good code. It does the following: > > o Gets a parameter off the stack and puts into eax (a pointer). > o Put the value 1 into ecx. > o Take a byte from the pointed-to location and pu

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Brian Gerst
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > Stand-alone, it can't do anything useful. However, if it generates > a page-fault due to the read or write, the page-fault handler could > do "something". Currently, the fault it fatal, probably because > the passed pointer is invalid. The write-protect test code is

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Brian Gerst
Mircea Damian wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: Upgrade GCC to 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2) -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Mircea Damian wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: > > > And here is the broken routine: > > 03f4 : > 3f4: 8b 44 24 04 movl 0x4(%esp,1),%eax > 3f8: b9 01 00 00 00 movl $0x1,%ecx > 3fd: 8a 10

Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Mircea Damian
Hello, I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: root@cyrix:/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/mm# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CyrixInstead cpu family : 6 model : 2 model name : 6x86MX 2.5x Core/Bus Clock stepping: 7 cpu MHz : 166.