i just got a dual Pentium mainboard and tried to compile and use a 2.1.11 SMP kernel.
However i got a panic in the smp pingpong stack allocation function (can't remember the
name). It tries to allocate (NUM_PROCS-1)*4096 bytes of low memory. For doing so, it first
checks, whether low_mem_start+(NUM_PROCS-1)*4096 is <9f000.
The problem is, that the low mem start given to the alloc is 4096+PAGE_OFFSET, with
PAGE_OFFSET=C0000000. So, this can't work in any way!!!!!
Now i have 2 questions:
- Is someone working on getting this fixed? I didn't really look into the sources enough
to fix it myself.
- What is the last version of the kernel to work properly in SMP?
Thanks Clemens
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