Public bug reported: ---Problem Description--- Kernel crash when setting up ramdisk on embedded ARM Contact Information = Chris Ward t...@uk.ibm.com Mohit Kapur moh...@us.ibm.com ---Additional Hardware Info--- Embedded ARM with FPGA
---uname output--- Linux cuttlefisharm1 5.4.0-xilinx-v2020.2 #1 SMP Thu Nov 18 18:44:45 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux Machine Type = IBM Research internal processor based on xilinx ---System Hang--- Unresponsive. Power cycle reclaims ---Debugger--- A debugger is not configured ---Steps to Reproduce--- Boot the system. Try dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=... count=... A small ramdisk works and gives the expected error when trying to write 8G of data into an 8M ramdisk. tjcw@cuttlefisharm1:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=4096 count=1048576 [sudo] password for tjcw: dd: error writing '/dev/ram0': No space left on device 2049+0 records in 2048+0 records out 8388608 bytes (8.4 MB, 8.0 MiB) copied, 0.0531788 s, 158 MB/s tjcw@cuttlefisharm1:~$ A 2GB ramdisk works, a 4GB ramdisk causes a crash ** Affects: kernel-package (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems Bug Triage (ubuntu-power-triage) Status: New ** Tags: architecture-other bugnameltc-195473 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin--- ** Tags added: architecture-other bugnameltc-195473 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin--- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1952185 Title: Embedded ARM64 crash trying to zero-fill an 8GB ramdisk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kernel-package/+bug/1952185/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs