| To: | Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> |
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| Subject: | Re: early crash on indigo2 fix breaks indy ... |
| From: | Ulf Carlsson <ulfc@calypso.engr.sgi.com> |
| Date: | Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:57:13 -0700 (PDT) |
| Cc: | linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <20000424132221.D2583@paradigm.rfc822.org> |
| Sender: | owner-linuxmips@oss.sgi.com |
> Indigo2 - I had the problem that the first alloc_bootmem i think > got back pages in the kernel marked as "free" - The resulting memset > let the kernel crash. My solution was to mark the kernel pages > as reserved. > > BTW: What does break on indy ? Does it crash ? Does it hang in SCSI Detection > ? Yeah, I noted that it didn't make any difference to revert your change except that the algorithm breaks and I get spammed with zillions of ``hm, page already marked as reserved'' messages when we try to reserve the already reserved memory. Is it possible to detect this with the PROM version or something? Ulf |
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