David Miller writes: > From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 21:38:24 +0200 > > > I removed "| CON_BOOT" and got what looks like the same oops > > Raúl Porcel reported earlier today (which he for some reason > > sent only to the lists, not to you or me); his oops was: > > I can reproduce this problem here in my t1000. > > It looks like some kind of initrd regression. > > Looking at the crashes, the kernel seems to be trying > to dereference a physical address when peeking at the > initrd instead of using a virtual one. That's a big > clue. > > This patch should fix it: > > commit d45100f7b69e3d9cd0cd5e956b6ac2c78d460d07 > Author: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue May 6 15:19:54 2008 -0700 > > sparc64: Fix initrd regression. > > We die because we forget to convert initrd_start and > initrd_end to virtual addresses. > > Reported by Mikael Pettersson > > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/arch/sparc64/mm/init.c b/arch/sparc64/mm/init.c > index db8e7fb..ec3e2c7 100644 > --- a/arch/sparc64/mm/init.c > +++ b/arch/sparc64/mm/init.c > @@ -771,6 +771,9 @@ static void __init find_ramdisk(unsigned long phys_base) > initrd_end = ramdisk_image + sparc_ramdisk_size; > > lmb_reserve(initrd_start, initrd_end); > + > + initrd_start += PAGE_OFFSET; > + initrd_end += PAGE_OFFSET; > } > #endif > } This solved my boot problem. Thanks. Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
