On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:04:35AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, 30 of September 2005 00:29, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> > Did you try just only my patch on top of 2.6.14-rc2? You can get that
> > patch from http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg07313.html
>
> The patch that I tested is attached. I think it's the same one. I've just applied
> it on top of 2.6.14-rc2-git7, and it doesn't boot.
It works fine for me. Only thing I see though is a warning for UP configuration.
Other than that UP, SMP(with and without hotplug) kernels boot fine. I will
send the warning fix to Andrew.
> The problem (as I see it) is this:
> In x86_64_start_kernel() you copy boot_level4_pgt[] into init_level4_pgt[],
> and you make the latter your current PGD by loading cr3 with its address.
> Fine. With this PGD you call start_kernel() which calls setup_arch(), which
> calls zap_low_mappings(0) that fills init_level4_pgt[] (which at this moment
> is still your current PGD) with zeros ...
It clears only the zeroth entry. Not the whole pgd.
Please send me your .config so that I can try reproducing the issue locally
here.
thanks,
suresh
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