again 2.3.28

Ani Joshi ajoshi at shell.unixbox.com
Thu Nov 18 07:15:58 EST 1999




On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Probably it depends on the machine, since I get up to free_all_bootmem(), which
> is called by mem_init() in start_kernel(). OK, I have a different box (CHRP)
> and was actually speaking about 2.3.27, but the 2.3.28 patch doesn't contain
> relevant changes.

	could your problem in free_all_bootmem() be caused by
"if(!bootmem_map) BUG();"?  because in do_init_bootmem()
it frees the bootmem bitmap (which is called very early).  
is it trying to free something thats already been free'd?

its possible this is happening on pmacs also...


ani


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