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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, mbligh@google.com, apw@shadowen.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 76306.1226@compuserve.com,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: sparsemem panic in 2.6.17-rc5-mm1 and -mm2
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 21:58:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060606215813.9bfe07af.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060607094355.b77ed883.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:43:55 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 00:27:58 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I tried sparsemem on my little x86 box here.  Boots OK, after fixing up the
> > kswapd_init() patch (below).
> > 
> > I'm wondering why I have 4k of highmem:
> > 
> 
> Could you show /proc/iomem of your 4k HIGHMEM box ?
> Does 4k HIGHMEM exist only when SPARSEMEM is selected ?

Turns out that my 4 kbyte highmem zone (at least, as reported in
/proc/meminfo) is due to

vdso-randomize-the-i386-vdso-by-moving-it-into-a-vma.patch
vdso-randomize-the-i386-vdso-by-moving-it-into-a-vma-tidy.patch
vdso-randomize-the-i386-vdso-by-moving-it-into-a-vma-arch_vma_name-fix.patch
vdso-randomize-the-i386-vdso-by-moving-it-into-a-vma-vs-x86_64-mm-reliable-stack-trace-support-i386.patch
vdso-randomize-the-i386-vdso-by-moving-it-into-a-vma-vs-x86_64-mm-reliable-stack-trace-support-i386-2.patch

I don't think that was intended.

It'll be a screwup in the handling of MAXMEM.  That patch is doing strange
things with MAXMEM.  They are unchangelogged, uncommented and
possibly-hacky-looking things too, so I have no intention of fixing it.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-07  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-06  0:51 sparsemem panic in 2.6.17-rc5-mm1 and -mm2 Martin Bligh
2006-06-06  3:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-06  5:19   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-06-06  5:36     ` Yasunori Goto
2006-06-06  7:27       ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-07  0:43         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-06-07  4:58           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-06-07  5:36             ` Rusty Russell
2006-06-07  5:50               ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-07  6:49                 ` Rusty Russell
2006-06-07  9:26         ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-06-07 16:29           ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-07 16:35             ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-07 17:50               ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-06-15 12:28               ` [PATCH] zone handle unaligned zone boundaries Andy Whitcroft
2006-06-07 17:22             ` sparsemem panic in 2.6.17-rc5-mm1 and -mm2 Andy Whitcroft
2006-06-06 23:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-07  9:16   ` Mel Gorman
2006-06-07 17:38   ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-06-07 17:41 ` Andy Whitcroft
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-06  3:50 Chuck Ebbert

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