On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:27:47AM -0800, john stultz wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 19:00 -0500, David Woodhouse wrote: >> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 20:59 +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > >> > >> Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough
>> This seems to be what's triggering the apparent memory corruption we've >> been seeing recently -- in the case of the Fedora kernel it manifests >> itself as a BUG() in cache_alloc_refill() when the pmac ide driver >> initialises. >> >> Another report was at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/17/4 >> >> We've been seeing it on a Mac Mini too, and I managed to reproduce it on >> my shinybook this evening by booting with 'mem=512M'. > Just for reference (as its not in the thread linked above), this issue > disappeared for me after some config changes (I somehow changed my > selection when I backtracked and then moved forward w/ git bisect). > I've not been able to reproduce it since, but I know others (BCC'ed on > this note) have seen it and might prod them to come forth with details > (and broken .config files) In my case, disabling CPU_FREQ_PMAC made the failure go away. After reverting this patch, CPU_FREQ_PMAC is once again operating successfully, so far. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, B.Sc, LPI, MCSE On-hiatus Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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