Re: Fw: PROBLEM: Linux V. 2.6.3 panics with "Buffers at physical address >16Mb used for aha1542" at boot time

James Bottomley
2004-02-20T02:18:44Z

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 20:12, Andrew Morton wrote:
> thank you very much for your work on Linux. Today, I came across a
> problem; sorry, I have failed in trying to spot the cause...
>
> [1.] Linux V. 2.6.3 panics with "Buffers at physical address >16Mb used
> for aha1542" at boot time on my box.

Could you replace the panic with a BUG() statement and make sure you
have CONFIG_KALLSYMS set, that should give us a backtrace showing where
the bad kernel allocation is.

Thanks,

James