panic on boot

Richard Nyberg rnyberg at it.su.se
Mon Aug 2 14:21:49 PDT 2004


At Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:32:03 -0700 (PDT),
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :Something between RC2 and 1.0 seem to be causing triggering
> :the following assertion during boot on one of my machines.
> :
> :assertion:
> :gd->gd_vme_base != NULL in vm_map_entry_kreserve
> :
> :backtrace:
> :vm_map_entry_kreserve
> :
> :	-Richard
> 
>     Richard, please try the below patch and tell me if it works.  It looks
>     like I was improperly decrementing the gd_vme_avail count in the
>     blockable case (normal reserve) which caused the non-blockable case
>     (kreserve) to panic.
> 
Sorry for the late answer matt. I'm on vacation and haven't been keeping
up with mail or lists too good.

Anyway, I see you have commited the patch, and it doesn't seem to cause
any trouble for me. However, for some reason I wasn't able to reproduce
the panic I was seeing earlier without the patch...

Keep up the good work!
	-Richard






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