ppc64 oops..
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Nov 15 18:11:37 EST 2005
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 22:40 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > I'm just about to boot something that added some printk's to mm/bootmem.c
> > that should be equivalent. But then I'm really turning in.
>
> Ok, looks like a ppc64 bug:
>
> Top of RAM: 0x180000000, Total RAM: 0x100000000
> Memory hole size: 2048MB
> Freeing bootmem 0,6442450944
Yes, that looks very wrong...
You can try to add some debug output to early_init_dt_scan_memory() in
arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c to see what it does. Anyway, I'll have a look
myself on the G5 here today, as soon as I'm done chasing the bug that
breaks ARCH=ppc on some PowerMacs.
Ben.
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