Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 05:21:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 05:21:01 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:13966 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 05:20:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 02:19:16 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20011115.021916.45712781.davem@redhat.com> To: anton@samba.org Cc: groudier@free.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] small sym-2 fix From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20011115153654.E22552@krispykreme> In-Reply-To: <20011115153654.E22552@krispykreme> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Anton Blanchard Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:36:54 +1100 I tested the sym-2 driver on ppc64 and found that hcb_p can be > 1 page but __sym_malloc fails for allocations over 1 page. This means we die in sym_attach. Are you using 4K pages on ppc64? :-( Franks a lot, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - 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/