Re: Commit for mm/page_alloc.c breaks boot process on my machine

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 23:20 +0100, Gerhard Pircher wrote:

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Datum: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 10:42:32 +0000
Von: Mel Gorman [off-list ref]
An: Gerhard Pircher [off-list ref]
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Betreff: Re: Commit for mm/page_alloc.c breaks boot process on my machine

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2. Any chance of seeing a dmesg log?

That's a little bit of a problem. The kernel log in memory doesn't
show any kernel oops, but is also fragmented (small fragments seem
to have been overwritten with 0x0).

err, that doesn't sound very healthy.

Yeah, I know. But the platform code hasn't changed much when porting it
from arch/ppc to arch/powerpc. That's why I'm a little bit lost in this
case. :-)

I'm at a bit of a loss to guess what might have changed in powerpc code
that would explain this. I've added the linuxppc-dev mailing list in
case they can make a guess.

Yes, I'll try to get some comments on the linuxppc-dev mailing list.

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I think you are also going to need to start bisecting searching
specifically for the patch that causes these overwrites.

I think I had a similar problem with kernel v2.6.23, too and therefore
waited for kernel 2.6.24. So the problem may exist since a long time.

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It's a virtual address so it depends on the value of CONFIG_KERNEL_START
as to whether this is a user program address or not.

AFAIK start_kernel() is called very early in the boot process, were no
user or kernel thread is active. I also wonder why the kernel crashes when
the mem boot option is used. Let's see what the linuxppc-dev people say.

Can you post a fresh bug report? There's lots of details missing from
the email you forwarded.

cheers

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