On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:28:04PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Alan L. Cox wrote: > > > Please test the attached patch instead. In order to avoid a race > > condition, it is necessary for the loop to begin with "start" rather > > than "start + 1". What is both unnecessary and wrong is the physical > > contiguity check. (My bad. :-() In other words, the test that the page > > is still free must be repeated because of the dropping of the free page > > queue lock, but contiguity once true is always true. > > Using this patch, my testbox boots just fine. > Thanks. I've committed the patch. AlanReceived on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 19:53:06 UTC
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