Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000effd870020

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/02/2013 09:21 AM, Nathan Zimmer wrote:
> I am getting an early boot problem. It only happens on the larger of the
> machines I haven't seen it crop up on machines with more then 512 GB of ram.
> It shows in the latest linus kernel too.
> 
> I am (wildly) guessing that what is happening is that the new_memmap that is
> being passed to bios is somehow placed incorrectly.  
> I have come up with a workaround.  By placing it the DMA area the issue goes
> away but that doesn't seem like a real fix. 
>

What does your memory map look like?

	-hpa

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