From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
"linux-mips@linux-mips.org" <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel crash in 2.6.32.6 / bcm1480 with 16k page size
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:58:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100129195801.GC11123@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B6336F1.8070208@caviumnetworks.com>
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:28:49PM -0500, David Daney wrote:
...
>
> I suspect you are hitting a maximum valid address bits limit and getting
> the Address Exception. Limiting VMALLOC_END so that you don't hit the
> limit seems to be the solution. I don't have the manual for the sibyte,
> so I don't know what the limit is. The architecture specification
> doesn't state a fixed limit, although it tells what should happen when
> the limit is reached.
>
You mean there might be a CPU-specific limit ? I hope not - that would be quite messy.
I'll see if I can dig up a sibyte manual.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-29 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-28 15:55 Kernel crash in 2.6.32.6 / bcm1480 with 16k page size Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 13:24 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-01-29 15:12 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 17:11 ` David Daney
2010-01-29 18:06 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-01-29 18:21 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-30 2:05 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-01-30 21:34 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-31 3:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 18:39 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 18:56 ` David Daney
2010-01-29 19:25 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 19:28 ` David Daney
2010-01-29 19:58 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2010-01-31 9:10 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-01-31 16:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-02-01 2:18 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-02-01 14:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-02-01 15:26 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-02-01 23:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2010-02-01 15:04 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-02-01 20:21 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-02-01 20:49 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-02-01 21:12 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 20:00 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 20:23 ` David Daney
2010-01-29 22:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-01-29 18:24 ` Guenter Roeck
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