From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>,
Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>,
Byron Stanoszek <bstanoszek@comtime.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc3: low mem - only 378MB on x86_32 with 64GB. Why?
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:35:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1255019748.9915.1389.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6a2187b0910080926x303d3c9em8f70632fb19b6509@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 00:26 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> Newly compiled 64-bit kernel hangs on a previously working pure 32-bit
> 2.6.32-rc3 system ...
>
> VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly on device 8:2.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 444k freed
> request_module: runaway loop modprove binfmt-464c
> request_module: runaway loop modprove binfmt-464c
> request_module: runaway loop modprove binfmt-464c
> request_module: runaway loop modprove binfmt-464c
> request_module: runaway loop modprove binfmt-464c
Take a quick look in your .config in the "Executable file formats /
Emulations" section. Make sure that you have ia32 emulation enabled:
CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y
That might not have been turned on if you used a .config from an old
32-bit kernel.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-08 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-05 15:57 2.6.32-rc3: low mem - only 378MB on x86_32 with 64GB. Why? Jeff Chua
2009-10-05 18:12 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <b6a2187b0910051715y4ee63503y148ba2d7e24cad8e@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-06 0:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 10:06 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-10-06 11:01 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-14 21:32 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-10-06 12:59 ` David Woodhouse
2009-10-06 14:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-11 9:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <b6a2187b0910052312o662642b2teded3d19548b9151@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-06 14:35 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <b6a2187b0910080926x303d3c9em8f70632fb19b6509@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-08 16:35 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
[not found] ` <b6a2187b0910090928r648169dax86178a3e8b8c2f21@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-10 18:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-10-10 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-11 9:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-11 17:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 16:50 ` Yuhong Bao
2009-10-05 18:42 ` Byron Stanoszek
2009-10-05 19:15 ` Dave Hansen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-05 19:42 Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-05 20:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
[not found] <drYiu-Pj-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2009-10-05 20:05 ` Daniel J Blueman
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