Re: OF-related boot crash in 3.3.0-rc3-00188-g3ec1e88

From: Meelis Roos
Date: Wed Feb 22 2012 - 12:41:37 EST


> > > Could you try to boot with a sensible mem=xxx value to see if limiting the memory
> > > helps.
> >
> > Like mem=256M? Will try.
> Think just a little more - I do not think this will help.

Tried it on the 2G V210. It changes the picture. With 2G RAM, it
just hangs.

With mem=256M it produces a crash in strlen and of_alias_scan like in
V100 with 1G.

mem=512M results in the same strlen error.

mem=1G results in a stranger error:

[ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: ERROR: Failed to allocate 0x90 bytes below 0x0.
[ 0.000000]
[ 0.000000] Call Trace:
[ 0.000000] [00000000007a6a28] memblock_alloc_base+0x28/0x38
[ 0.000000] [000000000079ca50] prom_early_alloc+0xc/0x60
[ 0.000000] [00000000007ae090] of_pdt_create_node.part.0+0x4/0xe0
[ 0.000000] [00000000007ae250] of_pdt_build_devicetree+0x30/0xa0
[ 0.000000] [000000000079c4a8] prom_build_devicetree+0x18/0x38
[ 0.000000] [00000000007a03c0] paging_init+0x59c/0x6bc
[ 0.000000] [000000000079be50] setup_arch+0xf8/0x108
[ 0.000000] [000000000079a4e8] start_kernel+0x78/0x30c
[ 0.000000] [00000000006a3e80] tlb_fixup_done+0x98/0xa0
[ 0.000000] [0000000000000000] (null)

The working machines have 512M RAM, 834M RAM and 2G RAM so it's not just
the amount of RAM.

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Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx)
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