From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:27:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from relay01.mx.bawue.net ([193.7.176.67]:28065 "EHLO relay01.mx.bawue.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20030024AbYGWQ1i (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:27:38 +0100 Received: from lagash (p549ACCC1.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.204.193]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay01.mx.bawue.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A903A48917; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:27:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KLhBl-0005Ne-E8; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:27:41 +0100 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:27:41 +0100 From: Thiemo Seufer To: Naresh Bhat Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Kernel is Hanging for page size 16KB. Message-ID: <20080723162741.GA17043@networkno.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 19931 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ths@networkno.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Naresh Bhat wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have a board MIPS Malta and Linux 2.6.10 is running on that. By default > 4KB page size will be allocated in the kernel (I mean to say I saw it when I > do the "make menuconfig". > > Problem is: > > When I changed the page size to 16KB it will hang after mounting the file > system. I am using the NFS for booting the board. IIRC the old TLB handlers were buggy for anything else than 4k pages. For the Malta, upgrading to a recent kernel version should be the simplest way to solve the problem. Thiemo