Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 does not boot. 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 + small fix from axboe was fine

Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-03-22T05:49:42Z

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Eric Valette wrote:

> > How about the following patch?
>
> OK this time, I used the correct original file, applied your patch. But
> it does not help. This time it freeze immediately after :
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed.
>
> Thanks anyway for the suggestion and sorry for the mistake on using the
> wrong version of init/main.c (after partially reverse applying the
> possible incorrect patch).

The patch actually fixed a bug i thought you were hitting;

Freeing 1nunedlketo lamdlo y:r3elkpfgeeg
equest at virtual address c06c22a0
printing eip:
c06c22a0
*pde = 00757027
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
CPU: 1
EIP: 0060:[<c06c22a0>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010213 (2.6.5-rc2-mm1)
EIP is at prepare_namespace+0x0/0xd0
eax: 00000002 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c060b2c0 edx: c060b300
esi: 00000001 edi: 00000000 ebp: dff8ffec esp: dff8ffd4
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=dff8f000 task=dff1fa50)
Stack: c0103235 00000000 00000000 0000007b c0103170 00000000 00000000 c01051f5
00000000 00000000 00000000
Call Trace:
[<c0103235>] init+0xc5/0x190
[<c0103170>] init+0x0/0x190
[<c01051f5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10

Code: Bad EIP value.
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!