Re: [PATCH 05/11] x86: remove HIGHMEM64G support

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Apr 12 2025 - 04:39:58 EST



* Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Has anyone run into any problems on 6.15-rc1 with this stuff?
>
> 0xf75fe000 is the mem_map[] entry for the first page >4GB. It
> obviously wasn't allocated, thus the oops. Looks like the memblock
> for the >4GB memory didn't get removed although the pgdats seem
> correct.
>
> I'll dig into it some more. Just wanted to make sure there wasn't a
> fix out there already.

Not that I'm aware of.

> The way I'm triggering this is booting qemu with a 32-bit PAE kernel,
> and "-m 4096" (or more).

That's a new regression indeed.

Thanks,

Ingo