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From: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@hvrlab.org>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
Cc: Josh Green <jgreen@users.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>
Subject: Re: iptables/vmalloc issues on alchemy
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:06:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114664812.4647.6.camel@mini.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4bf8c757c3a4d32177ab90b92eace823@embeddededge.com>

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 15:06 -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Josh Green wrote:
> 
> > ...... I was
> > planning on doing some additional gdb debugging of the failure
> > (especially the initial large MMAP attempt by iptables, which was 1.5GB
> > in my case).
> 
> Oh wait ....  I found a bug a while ago from someone trying to load
> large modules.  There is a problem if the kernel grows to need
> additional PTE tables, the top level pointers don't get propagated
> correctly and subsequent access by a thread that didn't actually
> do the allocation would fail.  I'm looking into this, including your
> past message about 64-bit PTEs.

additional note:

the problem only shows up for me only when enabling
CONFIG_64BIT_PHYS_ADDR, in case someone had problems reproducing the
issue...

regards,
-- 
Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@hvrlab.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-28  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-26  8:43 iptables/vmalloc issues on alchemy Herbert Valerio Riedel
2005-04-27 18:49 ` Josh Green
2005-04-27 19:06   ` Dan Malek
2005-04-28  5:06     ` Herbert Valerio Riedel [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-28 20:11 Christian Gan
2005-04-28 20:11 ` Christian Gan
2005-04-28 20:56 ` Dan Malek
2005-04-28 20:56   ` Dan Malek
2005-04-28 21:22 Christian Gan
2005-04-28 21:22 ` Christian Gan
2005-04-28 22:16 ` Dan Malek
2005-04-28 22:16   ` Dan Malek
2005-04-28 23:52   ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-04-28 23:16 Christian Gan
2005-04-28 23:16 ` Christian Gan

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