Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.23 boot failures on x86-64. | From | Martin Ebourne <> | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:21:02 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 15:43 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:03:09PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > But if allocating bootmem >4G doesn't work on these systems > > > > most likely they have more problems anyways. It might be better > > > > to find out what goes wrong exactly. > > > Any ideas on what to instrument ? > > > > See what address the bootmem_alloc_high returns; check if it overlaps > > with something etc. > > > > Fill the memory on the system and see if it can access all of its memory. > > Martin, as you have one of the affected systems, do you feel up to this?
Faking a node at 0000000000000000-000000001fff0000 Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000001fff0000 sparse_early_mem_map_alloc: returned address ffff81000070b000
My box has 512MB of RAM.
Cheers,
Martin.
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