Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:47:03 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> |
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On Wed, Sep 19 2001, 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?
It's a "solved" problem (well sort of, I decided against including the < 4GB memory zone which was the cause of this problem) in this old version. Use a more recent one and you'll be fine.
Or, use the old one and backout the zone changes.
-- Jens Axboe
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