From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267599AbUHTSzC (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:55:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266627AbUHTSwr (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:52:47 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:23518 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267599AbUHTSuC (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:50:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:49:33 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: vherva@viasys.com, petr@vandrovec.name, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 breaks vmware Message-ID: <20040820184932.GA11789@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20040820104230.GH23741@viasys.com> <20040820035142.3bcdb1cb.akpm@osdl.org> <20040820131825.GI23741@viasys.com> <20040820144304.GF8307@viasys.com> <20040820151621.GJ23741@viasys.com> <20040820114518.49a65b69.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040820114518.49a65b69.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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? --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBJke8xULwo51rQBIRAo3/AKCDJQVhovh6VUwjJbPULeHKvjiFqACdGj3i TTe9giaPyE+ZO6dF9hjE/T4= =E5TX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v--