From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zachary Amsden Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix boot crash when freeing initrd memory Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:59:23 -0800 Message-ID: <454934DB.4060700@vmware.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: James Morris Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org 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 i= f = >>> 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 Xe= n, = >> VMI or lhype). >> = > > Here's what it's trying to free: > > free_init_pages: what=3Dc02aef98 begin=3D4158582784 end=3D4160683928 > > (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