From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 03:35:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 03:35:25 -0400 Received: from [213.46.240.7] ([213.46.240.7]:47138 "EHLO amsmta04-svc.chello.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 03:35:11 -0400 From: "Ben Twijnstra" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 09:34:10 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: 2.4.5-ac1 won't boot with 4GB bigmem option Reply-to: Ben Twijnstra Message-ID: <3B121B92.18192.725C5@localhost> In-Reply-To: <01052722010200.01106@beastie> from "Ben Twijnstra" at May 27, 2001 10:01:02 PM In-Reply-To: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan, 2.4.5-ac2 works fine with 4GB on. Thanks! Will try a 2.4.5-aa2 later today, just for fun. Grtz, Ben On 27 May 2001, at 22:21, Alan Cox wrote: > > I compiled and booted the 2.4.5-ac1 kernel with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y option > > and got an oops in __alloc_pages() (called by alloc_bounce() called by > > schedule()). Everything works fine if I turn the 4GB mode off. > > Machine is a Dell Precision with 2 Xeons and 2GB of RAM. > > > > 2.4.5 works fine with the 4GB. Any idea what changed between the two? > > The -ac tree has some VM differences for bigmem that really need to be > cleaned up and/or removed now the Linus tree is looking solid. I'll probably > drop those diffs for -ac2 so that folks are working against one set of VM >