From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: vherva@viasys.com, petr@vandrovec.name, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 breaks vmware
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:49:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040820184932.GA11789@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040820114518.49a65b69.akpm@osdl.org>
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:45:18AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > I just put get_user_pages-handle-VM_IO.patch back and reverted
> > > dev-mem-restriction-patch.patch - I'll report back when it has compiled.
> >
> > Ok, 2.6.8.1-mm2 minus dev-mem-restriction-patch.patch fixes the "cannot
> > allocate memory" problem.
>
> Thanks for working that out.
>
> Strange. I'd have assumed that the Fedora kernels include that patch.
we do. Maybe you have an older (rare) vmware version ???
question is wtf vmware is doing with that memory.. it's outside the bios
area after all.... petr?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-20 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-20 10:42 2.6.8.1-mm2 breaks vmware Ville Herva
2004-08-20 10:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-20 13:18 ` Ville Herva
2004-08-20 14:43 ` Ville Herva
2004-08-20 15:16 ` Ville Herva
2004-08-20 18:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-20 18:49 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-08-20 19:30 ` Ville Herva
2004-08-22 11:42 ` Tonnerre
2004-08-22 13:59 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-08-22 14:15 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-20 19:25 ` Ville Herva
2004-08-21 6:29 ` Ville Herva
[not found] ` <20040821134918.GA1585@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
[not found] ` <20040821190027.GQ3024@viasys.com>
[not found] ` <20040821190730.GA25932@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
2004-08-22 14:31 ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-08-22 15:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-22 21:19 ` Ville Herva
2004-08-23 5:53 ` [OT] vmware, 2.6 kernel and altgr key (Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 breaks vmware) Ville Herva
2004-08-20 12:11 ` 2.6.8.1-mm2 breaks vmware Arjan van de Ven
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