Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1 oops on x86_64

Andrew Morton
2006-07-09T20:26:44Z

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:19:00 +0200
Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm1/
>
> Kernel BUG at ...home/legoater/linux/2.6.18-rc1-mm1/mm/page_alloc.c:252

VM_BUG_ON((gfp_flags & (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_HIGHMEM)) == __GFP_HIGHMEM);

With your config, __GFP_HIGHMEM=0, so wham.

I dunno, Christoph. I think those patches are going to significantly
increase the number of works-with-my-config, doesnt-with-yours scenarios.

We're going to hurt ourselves if we do this.