Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:31:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:31:04 -0400 Received: from zikova.cvut.cz ([147.32.235.100]:56589 "EHLO zikova.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:31:03 -0400 From: "Petr Vandrovec" Organization: CC CTU Prague To: hgchewml@optusnet.com.au Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:30:37 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: File corruption when running VMware. CC: "'Linux kernel mailing list'" , riel@conectiva.com.br X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.50 Message-ID: <37A7BD60863@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 24 Apr 02 at 2:01, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Hong-Gunn Chew wrote: > > > I have a repeatable problem when running VMware workstation 3.00 and > > 3.01. The cause is still unknown, and could be VMware itself, the > > hardware or the kernel. > > If you can reproduce it without VMware or with only the > open source part of VMware (ie without any of the binary > only parts) we might have a chance of debugging it. Hi again, one of 2.4.x kernel images available in SuSE's 8.0 has patched&enabled support for page tables in high memory, and this quickly revealed incompatibility between VMware's vmmon page table handling and ptes above directly mapped range. So if you have >890MB of RAM and your kernel is compiled with support for pte in high memory, please stop using VMware, or reconfigure your kernel to not use pte in high memory (4GB config without pte-in-highmem is OK). Using pte-in-highmem with vmmon will cause kernel oopses and/or memory corruption :-( If you do not have >890MB of memory, then reason for your memory corruption is still unknown to me. Best regards, Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz - 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/