Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-13 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 13-Sep-01 Alan Cox wrote: >> I think weve hit a bug with HIMEM and vmalloc(); after I turned on >> HIGHMEM >> I get similar results: every second frame or so is either bright pink, >> dark >> green, but nothing normal. Memory allocation looks normal from debugging. >> > > Just a t

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-13 Thread Alan Cox
> I think we´ve hit a bug with HIMEM and vmalloc(); after I turned on HIGHMEM > I get similar results: every second frame or so is either bright pink, dark > green, but nothing normal. Memory allocation looks normal from debugging. > Just a thought but are you using virt_to_bus() on a vmalloc pa

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-13 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, I think we´ve hit a bug with HIMEM and vmalloc(); after I turned on HIGHMEM I get similar results: every second frame or so is either bright pink, dark green, but nothing normal. Memory allocation looks normal from debugging. - Nemosoft On 12-Sep-01 Oliver Neukum wrote: >> The secon

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-12 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Hi, On 12-Sep-01 Randy.Dunlap wrote: > Maybe by using "mem=960M" as a kernel boot parameter (see > linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt). I´ll ask him. >> which to me suggests the second frame buffer is allocated, but somehow in >> memory which isn´t accessible (every other frame is bright

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-12 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 12-Sep-01 Oliver Neukum wrote: >> The second bug report said the module works fine when the person limits >> his >> memory to 960 MB (how, I dont know). With full memory, he gets artefacts > > With a 'mem=' kernel command line I presume. > >> which to me suggests the second frame

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-12 Thread Oliver Neukum
> The second bug report said the module works fine when the person limits his > memory to 960 MB (how, I don´t know). With full memory, he gets artefacts With a 'mem=' kernel command line I presume. > which to me suggests the second frame buffer is allocated, but somehow in > memory which isn´t

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-12 Thread Randy.Dunlap
"Nemosoft Unv." wrote: > > The odd part is that it manages to allocate frame buffer 0, but not buffer 1! > The code itself is in pwc-if.c, around line 312 in pwc_allocate_buffers(). > FRAME_SIZE is 460812. > > The second bug report said the module works fine when the person limits his > memory

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-12 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, On 11-Sep-01 Alan Cox wrote: >> This is the second message of this kind that I received. Seems like >> vmalloc() does weird things on machines with 1GB or more of physical RAM. > > It shouldnt do so. The amount of vmalloc memory is partly dependant on the > amount of RAM because you n

Re: [linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-11 Thread Alan Cox
> This is the second message of this kind that I received. Seems like > vmalloc() does weird things on machines with 1GB or more of physical RAM. It shouldnt do so. The amount of vmalloc memory is partly dependant on the amount of RAM because you need address space for the mappings, but that is

[linux-usb-devel] FW: bigmem machines

2001-09-11 Thread Nemosoft Unv.
Greetings, This is the second message of this kind that I received. Seems like vmalloc() does weird things on machines with 1GB or more of physical RAM. [I know this isn4t strictly USB related, but others may be affected as well; besides, lkml is probably too busy] I4m using vmalloc() for the