Re: RAMDISK problem on 79s334A board.

["Tommy S. Christensen" <tch@avanticore.com>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > But the same module is working fine and kernel is also fine if i use NFS
> > and insert the module.
> > Any further info ?
> 
> Not really. The fact it works with NFS and not ramdisk may simply be that
> in one case it corrupts memory that is used, and the other it corrupts
> memory that isnt

Using a ramdisk increases the pressure on memory. So the difference could
be that one case hits the cache aliasing problem, the other doesn't.

Try this patch and see if it helps.

 -Tommy



Index: mm/vmalloc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/linux/mm/vmalloc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.28
retrieving revision 1.28.2.1
diff -u -r1.28 -r1.28.2.1
--- mm/vmalloc.c        2001/10/19 01:25:06     1.28
+++ mm/vmalloc.c        2001/12/28 21:06:01     1.28.2.1
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@
                ret = 0;
        } while (address && (address < end));
        spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+       flush_cache_all();
        return ret;
 }