On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:28:49PM -0500, David Daney wrote: ... > > I suspect you are hitting a maximum valid address bits limit and getting > the Address Exception. Limiting VMALLOC_END so that you don't hit the > limit seems to be the solution. I don't have the manual for the sibyte, > so I don't know what the limit is. The architecture specification > doesn't state a fixed limit, although it tells what should happen when > the limit is reached. > You mean there might be a CPU-specific limit ? I hope not - that would be quite messy. I'll see if I can dig up a sibyte manual. Guenter