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From: Jayson King <jaysonk@sbcglobal.net>
To: kernel@kolivas.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: SOLVED [Was: backporting BFS to 2.6.27]
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:54:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC97C18.4060601@sbcglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC6638E.3020803@sbcglobal.net>

Jayson King wrote:
> The kernel compiles, but it panics:
> 
> Kernel alive
> Kernel really alive
> PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff810ad10b error 0 cr2 18.
> 
> There's no stack trace but that address is in __kmalloc.

I enabled earlyprintk=vga in boot options and got a stack trace, which 
pointed to a kmalloc call in sched_init. It turns out that this is a 
no-no in 2.6.27 as page_alloc is not set up. Replacing the call with 
alloc_bootmem instead allows the kernel to boot.

I will wrap up a new patch and post it in a bit.

Jayson


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-05  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-02 20:33 backporting BFS to 2.6.27 Jayson King
2009-10-02 22:04 ` Jayson King
2009-10-05  4:54 ` Jayson King [this message]

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