2.4.6-ac5 not booting on highmem machine

Jeff Lessem (Jeff.Lessem@Colorado.EDU)
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 07:31:25 -0600


I have an 8 processor PIII Xeon machine with 8GB of ram. The recent
-ac5 patch does not boot, panicking immediately after
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
is printed on the console. The following ksymoops is printed. If any
more information would be useful in tracking down this error, please
let me know.

ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.6. Options used
-v /home/lessem/linux/linux-ac/vmlinux (specified)
-K (specified)
-L (specified)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.6-ac5/ (specified)
-m /boot/System.map-2.4.6-ac5 (specified)

No modules in ksyms, skipping objects
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f8801000
c024fab6
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c024fab6>]
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 00010203
eax: f8800000 ebx: f88000e9 ecx: 03ff810c edx: 000006f0
esi: 00000f17 edi: c0203816 ebp: ecc3ff80 esp: c9cbbfbc
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c9cbb000)
Stack: c027f70c c024bfc0 00000000 0008e000 44000000 03ff80e9 00000024 c024c884
c9cba000 c024c8c2 c0105075 00010f00 c024bfc0 c01054fc 00000000 00000078
00098700
Call Trace: [<c0105075>] [<c01054fc>]
Code: 8a 04 1e 00 44 24 13 46 39 ee 72 f4 80 7c 24 13 00 74 08 53

>>EIP; c024fab6 <sbf_init+ee/198> <=====
Trace; c0105075 <init+29/154>
Trace; c01054fc <kernel_thread+28/38>
Code; c024fab6 <sbf_init+ee/198>
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code; c024fab6 <sbf_init+ee/198> <=====
0: 8a 04 1e mov (%esi,%ebx,1),%al <=====
Code; c024fab9 <sbf_init+f1/198>
3: 00 44 24 13 add %al,0x13(%esp,1)
Code; c024fabd <sbf_init+f5/198>
7: 46 inc %esi
Code; c024fabe <sbf_init+f6/198>
8: 39 ee cmp %ebp,%esi
Code; c024fac0 <sbf_init+f8/198>
a: 72 f4 jb 0 <_EIP>
Code; c024fac2 <sbf_init+fa/198>
c: 80 7c 24 13 00 cmpb $0x0,0x13(%esp,1)
Code; c024fac7 <sbf_init+ff/198>
11: 74 08 je 1b <_EIP+0x1b> c024fad1 <sbf_init+109/198>
Code; c024fac9 <sbf_init+101/198>
13: 53 push %ebx

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