linux-kernel - Re: console handover badness

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Message-Id: <20080812.184052.193693538.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:40:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mpatocka@...hat.com
Cc:	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: console handover badness

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:11:53 -0400 (EDT)

> and then boot failure of 2.6.27-rc[12] because of bad memory 
> migratetype. Is this migratetype crash a known problem? --- the problem is 
> that starting with 2.6.27rc1, I'm getting crash with this backtrace:
> __list_add
> __free_pages_ok
> __free_pages
> __free_pages_bootmem
> __free_all_bootmem
> mem_init
> start_kernel_tlb_fixup_code
> --- the crash is due to migratetype == 5 in __free_one_page (inlined into 
> __free_pages_ok) and because there are only 5 migratettypes, it attempts 
> to add to a non-existent list.

Mikulas can you send me the .config you're using in 2.6.27 to trigger
this?

Thanks.
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