Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:10:48 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> |
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:04:59PM -0500, Peter Wong wrote: > In order to use Jens' zero-bounce highmem I/O patch against 2.4.6, > a small modification for the patch is needed. Simply replace > GFP_BUFFER by GFP_NOIO in block-highmem-all-5.gz, which can be obtained > at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.6-pre1/. > > However, there is another problem. For both 2.4.5 and 2.4.6 with > Jens' patches, if the kernels are built with 4GB highmem, they > boot without problems. But if the kernels are built with 64GB > highmem, the kernels hang right after uncompressing Linux. Has > anyone seen this problem?
block-highmem-all-5 is _very_ _very_ old. Please upgrade to a recent kernel and patch and report again.
I had a system with PAE enabled and 2.4.9ac + some hacked block-highmem patch running very well here. (Probably it still runns :))
Christoph
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