From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 16:01:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 16:01:35 -0400 Received: from mail-out.chello.nl ([213.46.240.7]:56611 "EHLO amsmta01-svc.chello.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 16:01:21 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Ben Twijnstra To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 22:01:02 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01052722010200.01106@beastie> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I compiled and booted the 2.4.5-ac1 kernel with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y option and got an oops in __alloc_pages() (called by alloc_bounce() called by schedule()). Everything works fine if I turn the 4GB mode off. Machine is a Dell Precision with 2 Xeons and 2GB of RAM. 2.4.5 works fine with the 4GB. Any idea what changed between the two? Grtz, Ben