Re: 2.6.28-rc9 panics with crashkernel=256M while booting

From: Chandru
Date: Thu Jan 15 2009 - 03:13:20 EST


On Friday 09 January 2009 16:37:24 Chandru wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2009 01:33:12 Dave Hansen wrote:
> > Now I'm even more confused. Could you please send a fully changelogged
> > patch that describes the problem, and how this fixes it? This just
> > seems like an off-by-one error, which isn't what I thought we had before
> > at all.
> >
> > I'm also horribly confused why PFN_UP is needed here. Is 'physbase' not
> > page aligned? reserve_size looks like it *has* to be. 'end_pfn' is
> > always (as far as I have ever seen in the kernel) the pfn of the page
> > after the area we are interested in and we treat it as such in that
> > function. In the case of an unaligned physbase, that wouldn't be true.
> >
> > Think of the case where we have a 1-byte reservation. start_pfn will
> > equal end_pfn and we won't go into that while loop at *all* and won't
> > reserve anything.
> >
> > Does 'end_pfn' need fixing?
> >
>
> Attached is the console log with debug command line parameters enabled and
> with couple of more debug statements added to the code. Please take a look at it.
>
> thanks,
> Chandru
>

Hello Dave, From the debug console output, if there is anything you can add here,
pls let me know.

thanks
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