linux-kernel - UML fails to locate address space

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Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 12:08:24 +0100
From:	"Tom Spink" <tspink@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"Jeff Dike" <jdike@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: UML fails to locate address space

Hi,

I've just recently pulled the latest GIT and compiled UML, however,
when I run it a message appears saying "Locating the top of the
address space... Address 0x0 no good?" and the program exits.

After some digging, it appears that page_ok is returning false when
checking 'bottom', in os_get_task_size
(arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/task_size.c:96).  After running through
GDB, it seems that in line 31 of that file is where the segfault
occurs:

n = *address;

i.e. when trying to read from the address space (at address zero).

Here is GDB's output:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0806d993 in page_ok (page=0) at arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/task_size.c:31
31			n = *address;
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0806d993 in page_ok (page=0) at arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/task_size.c:31
#1  0x0806daf8 in os_get_task_size () at
arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/task_size.c:96
#2  0x0804ac7f in linux_main (argc=5, argv=0xbfe438a4) at
arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c:277
#3  0x0804b82f in main (argc=5, argv=0xbfe438a4, envp=0xbfe438bc) at
arch/um/os-Linux/main.c:150

As I mentioned, this is the latest git, running on a 32-bit x86 with
Ubuntu stock kernel 2.6.24-17.  As a quick hack, I manually got the
function to return ~3Gb, and UML continued to boot.  Any ideas, or any
more information you need?

(I've CCed Jeff Dike, as I saw it was his patch that introduced this code)

-- 
Regards,
Tom Spink
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