From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Santosh Shilimkar Subject: RE: Passing mem=1G to kernel on Panda, system is unstable. Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:42:58 +0530 Message-ID: <641ab84b6cedfd62b9b6bedeae077f1b@mail.gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from na3sys009aog112.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.207]:49929 "EHLO na3sys009aog112.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752068Ab1ANINC (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:13:02 -0500 Received: by mail-fx0-f48.google.com with SMTP id 2so2530224fxm.35 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:12:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Bryan Wu , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo Bryan, > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-omap- > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Wu > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:22 PM > To: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org; Ricardo Salveti de Araujo > Subject: Passing mem=1G to kernel on Panda, system is unstable. > > Hi folks, > > We are trying to build kernel package or GCC natively on OMAP4 panda > board. With the mainline 2.6.37 kernel or Ubuntu Natty 2.6.35 based > kernel, we met same instabilities on the system when we try to use > mem=1G on the board. > > Please find our bug tracker here: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ti-omap4/+bug/633227 > and I think another bug is also related: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ti- > omap4/+bug/690370. > System will freeze at all when building GCC natively on Panda. > > Did any folks meet this issue? or we need more simple test case to > catch the root cause of this issue. > Haven't seen this issue on my SDP with 2.6.37. Have you enabled HIGHMEM, when tried mem = 1G on 2.6.37 ?