On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:21:27PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Thanks for a useful report. I am the responsible person, it would seem,
> as I've rewritten the bootmem allocation code recently to make it
> consistent across all the subports and more flexible as well. I could
> only test the DECstation code so it's possible I screwed up things
> elsewhere. I'll look at the code and I'll provide a patch, either a fix,
> if I am able to develop it immediately or some debugging code otherwise.
>
> As I see prink() works for you could you please also check and report the
> memory map as found by the kernel, i.e. the lines output after "Determined
> physical RAM map:", if any? The code is executed very early, before an
> actual allocation takes place, so it should run regardless.
Ok - when i do this ...
Index: arch/mips/arc/memory.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/linux/arch/mips/arc/memory.c,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -r1.17 memory.c
--- arch/mips/arc/memory.c 2001/01/03 18:15:24 1.17
+++ arch/mips/arc/memory.c 2001/01/16 13:53:45
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
unsigned long base, size;
long type;
- base = __pa(p->base << PAGE_SHIFT); /* Fix up from KSEG0 */
+ base = p->base << PAGE_SHIFT;
size = p->pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
type = prom_memtype_classify(p->type);
I get further down the road with memory initialisation.
Also the pages no in zone(0) looks much saner:
Before:
On node 0 totalpages: 589824
zone(0): 589824 pages.
After:
On node 0 totalpages: 65536
zone(0): 65536 pages.
Later on it crashes with:
[...]
start_kernel, 541
start_kernel, 543
Calibrating system timer... 1250000 [250.00 MHz CPU]
Got a bus error IRQ, shouldn't happen yet
$0 : 00000000 1004fc00 00000001 00000000
$4 : 88009cd8 00000000 00000008 00000000
$8 : 1004fc01 1000001f 0000000a 00000001
$12: 00000000 00000004 00000000 00000001
$16: 00000000 00000002 0000000a 880083d8
$20: 00000001 a8746f70 9fc5c2b4 00000000
$24: 00002590 00000001
$28: 88008000 88009cd8 00000001 88010118
epc : 880127b0
Status: 1004fc03
Cause : 10004000
Status: 1004fc03
Cause : 10004000
Cause : 10004000
Spinning...
Flo
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Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?
