Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:48:56 -0800 | | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | | Subject | Re: linux-2.5.40 64GB highmem BUG() |
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At some point in the past, I wrote: >> This is not reproducible here with 2.5.52-mm2. Is the initrd required >> to trigger this?
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 01:43:20AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: > Yes, the initrd seems to be required. It happens when > the initrd attempts to mount /proc (it runs a shell script that > starts by setting PATH, mounting /dev, and mounting /proc). > I've verified that under 2.5.52 the problem occurs with > CONFIG_HIGHME64G and not with CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. Actually, now the > problem is a BUG() at slab.c:1451, which is also memory corruption, > and I suspect just an evolution of the same problem from 2.5.40. > Anyhow, in case it helps you, I've put the vmlinux and initrd > that produce this problem in > ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/adam/for-wli/. Note that the ramdisk > has kernel modules that don't match the kernel but that's not the > issue, as I configured that kernel to have a different version name. > Thanks for your attention to this problem.
I'll take it for a spin sometime in the next 6-12 hours.
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