Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 09/20/2007 08:32 AM, Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> yesterday I tried to boot a kernel built from the current wireless-dev git
>> tree (ath5k branch)
>> on a MSEP800/A board (see http://www.milesie.co.uk/pdf/MSEP800.pdf). The
>> board
>> contains an AMD Geode LX800 CPU.
>> The wireless-dev tree is up to date with Linus kernel 2.6.23-rc6.
>>
>> Attached is a photographic screen shot. The EIP value of c0378dd6 seems to
>> correspond with the
>> reserve_bootmem_core from System.map:
>>
>> c0378d51 t free_bootmem_core
>> c0378da7 T free_bootmem
>> c0378db2 T free_bootmem_node
>> c0378dba t reserve_bootmem_core
>> c0378e14 T reserve_bootmem
>> c0378e1f T reserve_bootmem_node
>>
> Can you post disassembled code for that function?
Its hitting a bug - specifically (from bootmem.c:125):
BUG_ON(PFN_DOWN(addr) >= bdata->node_low_pfn);
I hit this problem on a db800 last week. It went away with a newer
version of the BIOS, which doesn't help Joerg any, since its a different
board (though I think it is the same BIOS vendor). Other BIOSes work
just fine with the same kernel image (including known troublemakers like
LinuxBIOS). I believe that 2.6.22 was good, so some change must
have come along in 2.6.23-pre to cause the pain. Or, it may have exposed
old breakage in the BIOS that was later repaired.
I'll do the math to figure out whats happening - and I'll check the release
notes to see what changed in the BIOS between the failing and working
version. If anybody familiar with arch/i386 can think of something
new in the kernel that may have precipitated this, do let me know. :)
Jordan
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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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