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From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix boot crash when freeing initrd memory
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:59:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <454934DB.4060700@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0611011831450.1490-100000@redline.boston.redhat.com>

James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, James Morris wrote:
>
>   
>>> Is this booting native or under Xen?  I put the BUG_ON in there since if 
>>> it isn't page-aligned, freeing the page would seem to be freeing 
>>> something else unexpectedly...  I think ChrisW was triggering this 
>>> BUG_ON at one point, but I don't think we've worked out what's going on 
>>> here.
>>>       
>> This is booting native, with patches applied but nothing selected (no Xen, 
>> VMI or lhype).
>>     
>
> Here's what it's trying to free:
>
> free_init_pages: what=c02aef98 begin=4158582784 end=4160683928
>
> (in hex, begin & end are 0xf7def000 and 0xf7eff98)
>   

James, can you mail us your .config?  I've seen this once or twice, but 
it always was config dependent, and I never succeeded at bisecting the 
config properly to determine what caused it to appear.

Thanks,

Zach

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-01 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-01 22:36 [PATCH] fix boot crash when freeing initrd memory James Morris
2006-11-01 22:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-01 23:22   ` James Morris
2006-11-01 23:34     ` James Morris
2006-11-01 23:56       ` James Morris
2006-11-01 23:59       ` Zachary Amsden [this message]
2006-11-02  0:15         ` James Morris

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