I installed 2.6.15.1 on a lowmem box.
I changed .config a bit compared to previous running kernel
(was at 2.6.12.3).
Box got unstable. After ~10 hours it locks up solid without
OOPS. No keyboard led toggling, no SysRq.
I went back to 2.6.14.6 but it didn't help. I changed .config
back to 2.6.12.3 one (a few settings at a time) and
narrowed it down to below diff.
I think it's CONFIG_BASE_SMALL. IOW: this one in menuconfig:
-> General setup
-> Configure standard kernel features
-> Enable full-sized data structures for core
# diff -u config config_bad8
--- config Mon Jan 30 15:56:00 2006
+++ config_bad8 Mon Jan 30 15:50:06 2006
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.14.6
-# Mon Jan 30 15:56:00 2006
+# Mon Jan 30 08:13:25 2006
#
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=y
CONFIG_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_BUG=y
-CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
+# CONFIG_BASE_FULL is not set
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LOOPS=1
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_JUMPS=1
# CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set
-CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0
+CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=1
#
# Loadable module support
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
-CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y
+# CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR is not set
# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
This box has 32MB of RAM:
Linux version 2.6.14.6 (root@firebird) (gcc version 3.4.1) #1 SMP Mon Jan 30 16:45:37 EET 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000002000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffe80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
32MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f67a0
On node 0 totalpages: 8192
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.0 present.
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: INTEL Product ID: RD440LX DP APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 6:3 APIC version 17
I/O APIC #1 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Processors: 1
Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 02000000:fcc00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sdb1 devfs=nomount init=/init
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 4096 bytes)
Detected 233.319 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x30
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Memory: 26520k/32768k available (3034k kernel code, 5820k reserved, 1311k data, 600k init, 0k highmem)
I will retest with 2.6.15.1 now.
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