On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
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> I'm seeing a crash in current x86.git tip/auto-latest when booting under
> Xen.  The crash is rather early, but it's in __alloc_bootmem_core() in the
> final memset clear.  Apparently the allocator is returning a bad page.
>
> This points to changes in the setup of the bootmem allocator, and the
> changes "x86: extend e820 ealy_res support 32bit" make to
> arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c:setup_bootmem_allocator() looks like the most
> likely suspect.  Unfortunately its a rather large patch which is not easy to
> revert, so I haven't actually confirmed this yet.


thanks. please check the attached patch

YH