Kernel panic with Red Hat 2-4-18 kernel

Kernel panic with Red Hat 2-4-18 kernel

[M. Edward Borasky]

Is there a fix available for the following, generated on a 6 GB SMP P4 Xeon
system with the Red Hat 2.4.18 kernel?

Kernel panic: Fix pte_chain allocation, you lazy bastard!

I searched the web and found copious references in the context of 2.5, but
nothing in 2.4, Red Hat or otherwise.
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LKM - unresolved symbol

[Canturk ISCI]

Hi,

when I want to use an external function/data in my LKM, say I want to use
cpuid from processor.h, I include processor.h in my KLM, and call cpuid.
It compiles fine, but when I try to insmod it, I get unresolved symbol
cpuid.
This happens quite often when I try to use something from outside. I've
read i386_ksyms.c doesn't export those symbols and this causes the problem
when insmod tries to link them.
I am wondering if there is a way around this unresolved symbol problem, or
if I get something wrong.
thanks...

Re: Kernel panic with Red Hat 2-4-18 kernel

[Arjan van de Ven]

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On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 16:32, M. Edward Borasky wrote:
> Is there a fix available for the following, generated on a 6 GB SMP P4 Xeon
> system with the Red Hat 2.4.18 kernel?
> 
> Kernel panic: Fix pte_chain allocation, you lazy bastard!
> 
> I searched the web and found copious references in the context of 2.5, but
> nothing in 2.4, Red Hat or otherwise.

have you filed a bug yet in RH bugzilla ?


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Re: Kernel panic with Red Hat 2-4-18 kernel

[Alan]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 15:32, M. Edward Borasky wrote:
> Is there a fix available for the following, generated on a 6 GB SMP P4 Xeon
> system with the Red Hat 2.4.18 kernel?
> 
> Kernel panic: Fix pte_chain allocation, you lazy bastard!
> 
> I searched the web and found copious references in the context of 2.5, but
> nothing in 2.4, Red Hat or otherwise.

I'm amazed anyone managed to cause that. With the rmap14 code the answer is
no. The latest rmap15 code in the RH beta should have it resolved