H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: >> On Thursday 19 April 2007 22:55:50 H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> Andi Kleen wrote: >>>>> Is some version of this going in for 2.6.21, or is it not a real >>>>> problem? >>>> When it's only seen with Xen it's not a real problem right now. >>> It's not just seen only with Xen, though. It will affect all kernels >>> in a particular range of sizes, and we have ordinary kernels covering >>> that range (in fact, Xen hardly affects size in that way.) >> >> Then we would have seen reports surely? > > The critical size window is relatively small, though. The size of the > uncompressed kernel mod 4 MB must be above 3.75 MB or so. If you have > less than 1 GB RAM, the window is even smaller. This is strictly > configuration-dependent, and has nothing to do with Xen. It just so > happened that the first people to detect and diagnose it (as opposed to > just "it doesn't boot") were Xen people.
I never saw a description of the symptoms of encountering this bug. Does it just hang, or what? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
