Dhaval Giani wrote: > > .config > This appears to be unrelated, but booting this configuration on a stock 2.6.24-rc7 kernel crashes during bootup with no initrd if the memory size is 896 MB or less (i.e. lowmem only): Bad page state in process 'swapper' page:c1b59800 flags:0xdead4aad mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:0 Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Backtrace: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7 #1 [<c0105ff3>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [<c0106885>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c0106b7b>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72 [<c015c5c3>] bad_page+0x67/0x93 [<c015d33e>] __free_pages_ok+0x63/0x2f3 [<c015d5f2>] __free_pages+0x24/0x26 [<c05c70ea>] __free_pages_bootmem+0x5f/0x63 [<c05c57c9>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xcd/0x1a4 [<c05c58ad>] free_all_bootmem+0xd/0xf [<c05c244c>] mem_init+0x81/0x31b [<c05b4639>] start_kernel+0x2af/0x335 [<00000000>] 0x0 ======================= Bad page state in process 'swapper' [...] ======================= BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#0, swapper/0, 00000e28 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G B 2.6.24-rc7 #1 [<c0105ff3>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [<c0106885>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c0106b7b>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72 [<c024b9a9>] _raw_spin_lock+0xc1/0xe2 [<c0411d08>] _spin_lock+0x32/0x38 [<c015d3f9>] __free_pages_ok+0x11e/0x2f3 [<c015d5f2>] __free_pages+0x24/0x26 [<c05c70ea>] __free_pages_bootmem+0x5f/0x63 [<c05c57c9>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xcd/0x1a4 [<c05c58ad>] free_all_bootmem+0xd/0xf [<c05c244c>] mem_init+0x81/0x31b [<c05b4639>] start_kernel+0x2af/0x335 [<00000000>] 0x0 ======================= [hang] Booting with > 896 MB works... -hpa
