From: "Ben Twijnstra" <bentw@chello.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 09:34:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B121B92.18192.725C5@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01052722010200.01106@beastie> from "Ben Twijnstra" at May 27, 2001 10:01:02 PM
In-Reply-To: <E1547yj-0002Mb-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan,
2.4.5-ac2 works fine with 4GB on. Thanks! Will try a 2.4.5-aa2 later
today, just for fun.
Grtz,
Ben
On 27 May 2001, at 22:21, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I compiled and booted the 2.4.5-ac1 kernel with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y option
> > and got an oops in __alloc_pages() (called by alloc_bounce() called by
> > schedule()). Everything works fine if I turn the 4GB mode off.
> > Machine is a Dell Precision with 2 Xeons and 2GB of RAM.
> >
> > 2.4.5 works fine with the 4GB. Any idea what changed between the two?
>
> The -ac tree has some VM differences for bigmem that really need to be
> cleaned up and/or removed now the Linus tree is looking solid. I'll probably
> drop those diffs for -ac2 so that folks are working against one set of VM
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-28 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-27 20:01 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option Ben Twijnstra
2001-05-27 21:03 ` Fabio Riccardi
2001-05-27 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-27 21:39 ` Fabio Riccardi
2001-05-27 21:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-28 7:34 ` Ben Twijnstra [this message]
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