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
next prev 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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