Re: [PATCH *] rmap VM, version 12

Rik van Riel
2002-01-23T19:21:24Z

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Badari Pulavarty wrote:

> I just tried to boot 2.4.17+rmap12 turning off HIGHMEM and it booted
> just fine. So it has to do with some HIGHMEM change happend between
> rmap11c and rmap12.
>
> Does this help ?

Yes. Time for a very very big DOH, the kind of
DOH that would make Homer Simpson blush ...

I think you're seeing a divide by zero on line
947 of page_alloc.c ... which also explains why
the highmem emulation patch wasn't a big success
here. ;)

I'll release an rmap-12a within the hour.

regards,

Rik
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