Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269653AbUJMIEj (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 04:04:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269648AbUJMIEj (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 04:04:39 -0400 Received: from palrel10.hp.com ([156.153.255.245]:15267 "EHLO palrel10.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269643AbUJMIEM (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 04:04:12 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16748.57721.66330.638048@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:04:09 -0700 To: Cc: , , , Subject: Re: bug in 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 ia64/mm/init.c In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 960 Lines: 25 >>>>> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:21:41 -0700 (PDT), said: >> Hi Folks; >> Tried a kernel built with akpm's 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 patch today (using >> a default sn2 .config file.) It crashes on boot with: >> .... SGI SAL version 3.40 Virtual mem_map starts at >> 0xa0007ffe85938000 Unable to handle kernel paging request at >> virtual address a0007ffeaf970000 swapper[0]: Oops 8813272891392 >> [1] Modules linked in: >> I traced this down to a recent patch (see >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=109723728329408&w=2) >> which contains: Why was this patch even accepted? It seemed rather dubious to me and I don't recall much discussion on its merits or safety. --david - 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/