Re: do we want to kill VM_RESERVED or not? [was Re: 2.6.5-rc1-aa3]

From: Marc-Christian Petersen
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 07:17:00 EST


On Monday 22 March 2004 01:10, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

Hi Andrea,

> You're welcome, you should also thank Dave and Hugh even before you
> thank me ;), since they solved many of the problems to make this
> possible years ago even before I started working on the objrmap myself.

Okay :)

> it's not an oops report, it's a warning only and it should not affect
> functionality in any way (vmware should still work). The vmware fix will
> shutdown the warning so you won't be annoyed anymore by it ;)

well, ok. The first two things are warnings, the last is a kernel bug.

And VMware won't work at all. Booting a VMware Image triggers the 2 warnings
and the kernel BUG and the screen stays black in VMware.

cioa, Marc
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