From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e23smtp08.au.ibm.com (e23smtp08.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.141]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e23smtp08.au.ibm.com", Issuer "Equifax" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 010C0DE145 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:40:13 +1100 (EST) Received: from d23relay02.au.ibm.com (d23relay02.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.244]) by e23smtp08.au.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n2CCeDmt012421 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:40:13 +1100 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (d23av02.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.138]) by d23relay02.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n2CCeUwR729088 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:40:30 +1100 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av02.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n2CCeCeI003646 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:40:12 +1100 Message-ID: <49B902AA.20306@in.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:10:10 +0530 From: Sachin Sant MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc7-git2 : crash in kmem_list3_init() References: <49B5448B.6030205@in.ibm.com> <49B60371.7050508@in.ibm.com> <20090310134610.GB13020@csn.ul.ie> <49B677AB.1010006@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <49B677AB.1010006@in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, cl@linux-foundation.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sachin P. Sant wrote: > Mel Gorman wrote: >> >> Well, the machine must have started with some kernel. What mainline >> version does that correspond to and can you bisect it? >> > The last booted kernel was a 2.6.25 based kernel. I am trying to find out > the last good kernel.org kernel. I should have that information by > tomorrow. Sorry it took some time to get to this. After lots of build, i found that the problem depends on PAGE_SIZE. With 4K Page Size i was able to boot 2.6.29-rc7-git2 kernel on this box. But with 64K page size the machine panics. Is there any other information i could provide to find a solution for this issue ? Thanks -Sachin -- --------------------------------- Sachin Sant IBM Linux Technology Center India Systems and Technology Labs Bangalore, India ---------------------------------