Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161308AbXBZWwi (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:52:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161309AbXBZWwi (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:52:38 -0500 Received: from betty.cbit.net.au ([202.55.154.10]:59594 "EHLO mail.cbit.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161308AbXBZWwh (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:52:37 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1507 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:52:36 EST Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:27:24 +1100 From: Paul TBBle Hampson To: john stultz Cc: David Woodhouse , Linux Kernel Mailing List , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough Message-ID: <20070226222724.GA13182@keitarou> References: <200612112059.kBBKx1j7022473@hera.kernel.org> <1172448057.3971.9.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1172518068.15970.6.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1172518068.15970.6.camel@localhost> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Debian) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2453 Lines: 67 --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:27:47AM -0800, john stultz wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 19:00 -0500, David Woodhouse wrote: >> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 20:59 +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > >>=20 > >> Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough >> This seems to be what's triggering the apparent memory corruption we've >> been seeing recently -- in the case of the Fedora kernel it manifests >> itself as a BUG() in cache_alloc_refill() when the pmac ide driver >> initialises. >>=20 >> Another report was at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/17/4 >>=20 >> We've been seeing it on a Mac Mini too, and I managed to reproduce it on >> my shinybook this evening by booting with 'mem=3D512M'. > Just for reference (as its not in the thread linked above), this issue > disappeared for me after some config changes (I somehow changed my > selection when I backtracked and then moved forward w/ git bisect). > I've not been able to reproduce it since, but I know others (BCC'ed on > this note) have seen it and might prod them to come forth with details > (and broken .config files) In my case, disabling CPU_FREQ_PMAC made the failure go away. After reverting this patch, CPU_FREQ_PMAC is once again operating successfully, so far. --=20 ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, B.Sc, LPI, MCSE On-hiatus Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Pobox.Com Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ ----------------------------------------------------------- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF417MexDuohKLFuARArwmAJ935Wo7mlLd4DOaWcwZAsfefxIqBACfaqq+ QsDgU/TGLK72b30RCT05Ozk= =2x33 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz-- - 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/