Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [Fastboot] [CFT] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages | Date | Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:41:30 -0600 |
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Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> writes:
>> This looks like a different one but looks fairly sane. >> >> Do you know what code had problems having _PAGE_NX set. >> What are we doing with early_ioremap the requires execute >> permissions. It doesn't sound right that we would need >> this. > > This fix is only needed for a subset of our em64t boxes, so it could be > just a chipset problem. Supposedly, if I remember the conversation > correctly, when the kernel first boots it reserves about 40MB and about 20 > pmds automatically. After decompression, early_io_remap tries to setup > all the memory. The conflict arose when early_io_remap tried to reuse one > of those pmds. This caused the system to crash and reboot. > > I'll try to get more info Monday on the specifics.
Thanks.
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