Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 22:24 +0500, Fawad Lateef wrote: > Dear Arjan, > > On 8/8/05, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1) you probably should use RH support for this > > 2) you forgot to attach your sourcecode / URL to that, including the > >full source of your module. > > >

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-08 Thread Fawad Lateef
Dear Arjan, On 8/8/05, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) you probably should use RH support for this > 2) you forgot to attach your sourcecode / URL to that, including the >full source of your module. > I already mentioned my code and some details in my previous mail on the

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 08:50 +0500, Fawad Lateef wrote: > Hello, > > I m facing a problem in RHEL3 (2.4.21-5.ELsmp) kernel while using > kmap_atomic on the pages reserved at the boot time > > At the boot time I reserved pages above 2GB for later use by my module > . And when I was using t

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-08 Thread Zachary Amsden
Fawad Lateef wrote: if ((unsigned long)(page - mem_map) > 0x8) { SetPageReserved(page); set_bit(PG_highmem, &page->flags); atomic_set(&page->count, 0xC4); That seems like a hackish thing to do. Could you mistake other pages with

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-08 Thread Fawad Lateef
On 8/8/05, Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IIRC 2.4.21 has some highmem bugs that have since been fixed. But, it > sounds like you might be doing something quite unusual. Code would > definitely give people a better idea of what might be wrong. I think you overlooked what i ment

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Fawad Lateef wrote: Hello, I m facing a problem in RHEL3 (2.4.21-5.ELsmp) kernel while using kmap_atomic on the pages reserved at the boot time At the boot time I reserved pages above 2GB for later use by my module . And when I was using those reserved pages through kmap_atomic system

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/7/05, Fawad Lateef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I m facing a problem in RHEL3 (2.4.21-5.ELsmp) kernel while using > kmap_atomic on the pages reserved at the boot time Unless you can reproduce this in a current kernel.org kernel (2.6.13-rc6), then you probably should contact R