* Yinghai Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Commit 8d57470d cause a kernel panic while setting mem=2G.
> [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff] page 4k
> [mem 0x7fe00000-0x7fffffff] page 1G
> [mem 0x7c000000-0x7fdfffff] page 1G
> [mem 0x00100000-0x001fffff] page 4k
> [mem 0x00200000-0x7bffffff] page 2M
>
> for last entry is not what we want, we should have
> [mem 0x00200000-0x3fffffff] page 2M
> [mem 0x40000000-0x7bffffff] page 1G
What this changelog does not mention, why does the erroneous entry result
in a kernel panic? It looks like a valid range, so a crash is unexpected.
(This is worth explaining, even if the fix for that is in a separate
patch.)
Thanks,
Ingo
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