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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Haren Myneni [imap]" <haren@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm2 crashes in early boot
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:02:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100912538.8629.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1100909034.6236.11.camel@localhost>

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:03, Dave Hansen wrote:
> I enabled crashdump on 2.6.10-rc2-mm2 with CONFIG_SMP=y and hit the bug
> in smp_alloc_memory() because trampoline_base was allocated too high. 
> It needs to be below 0x9F000 and crash_reserve_bootmem() reserves
> everything below 0xa0000.  I'm not sure how this ever worked with SMP.  
> 
> Here's my .config: http://sprucegoose.sr71.net/~dave/lkcd-config
> 
> Commenting out the following line makes it boot:
> 
> static inline void crash_reserve_bootmem(void)
> {
>         if (!dump_enabled) {
> ------->        reserve_bootmem(0, CRASH_RELOCATE_SIZE);
>                 reserve_bootmem(CRASH_BACKUP_BASE,
>                         CRASH_BACKUP_SIZE + CRASH_RELOCATE_SIZE + PAGE_SIZE);
>         }
> }

OK, found the patch:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110078720123943&w=2

Do we really still need the CRASH_RELOCATE_SIZE #define?  What is it
there for?

-- Dave


      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-20  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-20  0:03 2.6.10-rc2-mm2 crashes in early boot Dave Hansen
2004-11-20  1:02 ` Dave Hansen [this message]

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