Kernel panic with ACPI enabled
Nate Lawson
nate at root.org
Wed Feb 8 11:12:15 PST 2006
John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 04:33, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 2006-Feb-07 23:59:06 -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
>>
>>>John Baldwin wrote:
>>>
>>>>Actually, in his case I'm fairly sure MAXMEM is the problem. Several
>>>>people have had problems trying to use the tunable equivalent
>>>>(hw.physmem=3g and the like) because if the new maxmem value is greater
>>>
>>>Can we at least put a printf() in the boot sequence that says "warning:
>>>maxmem set and acpi enabled, this may cause problems"? This keeps
>>>coming up.
>>
>>Presumably this isn't a problem where hw.physmem is used to artifically
>>reduce the system for testing.
>
>
> It depends on the value you use. Some values will be ok, some will break
> things. The code that handles maxmem and physmem really needs to be
> SMAP-aware and not use memory that we know isn't really memory.
Yes, but I'd prefer the printf for now until SMAP support can be added.
--
Nate
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