contigmalloc1 panic on install
mark tinguely
tinguely at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Tue Jul 15 07:37:50 PDT 2003
> Regarding this issue, I've got a 5.1-CURRENT snapshot (as of 7-9) which is
> still displaying this problem. I have a debug kernel and can provide some
> more detail :
>
> agp0: <Ali Generic host to PCI bridge> mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff at device
> 0.0 on pci0
> agp0: allocatnig GATT for aperture size 0M
> panic: contigmalloc1: size must not be 0
> Debugger("panic")
> Stopped at Debugger+0x54: xchgl %ebx,in_Debugger.0
there is really two problems (in my opinion):
1) AGP_GET_APERTURE() is failing to return the aperture.
2) agp_alloc_gatt() should return an error (0) if AGP_GET_APERTURE()
fails instead of malloc/contigmalloc. This would result in no
monitor use, but that would be better than a panic.
--Mark.
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