Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:17:06 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: kernel 2.4.26 oops (maybe solved) |
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:26:22PM -0400, Peter Santoro wrote: > After trying many h/w and s/w configurations, I've apparently isolated > my instability issues to using the following the linux kernel highmem > options: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y, CONFIG_HIGHMEMIO=y. I > have 1GB ram, so maybe one of my dimms is bad or maybe there's a highmem > bug in the 2.4.X kernel. > > The crashes in my previous emails today were due to using the latest > alsa modules (loaded, but not used by any application) with a HIGHMEM > enabled kernel. I appear to have no problem using alsa when HIGHMEM is > disabled. Apparently, I'm not the only one having problems with alsa > and highmem > (http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg13918.html). > > I would be willing to work with a kernel developer to better isolate > this problem and test a patch.
Hi Peter,
Care to disable ALSA to see if the problem really only happens when running ALSA+HIGHMEM ?
Your previous oopses in core VM code seem to be hardware problems to me, I haven't done any deep analysis though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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