From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 03:55:44 +0000 Subject: Re: Badness in map_area_pte Message-Id: <20050116035544.GL3474@holomorphy.com> List-Id: References: <41E96A42.7090501@mc.net> In-Reply-To: <41E96A42.7090501@mc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Bob Breuer wrote: >> At this point, I am guessing that some pte's allocated for the >> framebuffer are being wrongly re-used when loading the module. On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:25:35PM -0600, Bob Breuer wrote: > The cg14 driver is not remapping the framebuffer, and is using the mappings > that were setup by the prom and recreated in linux from > srmmu_inherit_prom_mappings(). > How can we tell vmalloc not to step on that area of memory? Is it just > from VMALLOC_START to END? Let's see, for 2.6 those are 0xfe600000 and > 0xffc00000. The prom mapped the cg14 to 0xfe700000 (8MB ram) and > 0xffec0000 (registers). Hmm, a bit of overlap there... And 2.4 had > VMALLOC_START at 0xfe300000. So it would seem that if the total vmalloc'ed > memory goes above 1 meg for me, 2.6 will have problems, but 2.4 will still > be fine. This sounds like a real problem. What happens if you move VMALLOC_START to where it was in 2.4.x? -- wli