Subject: linux-next not booting on snowball

From: Daniel Lezcano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:51:00 +0100

Hi all,

I am using the linux-next head git tree on a snowball V5.

The kernel hangs at "Uncompressing kernel... done".

After bisecting, the patch where the kernel does no longer boot is:

commit 549158d2ab01e8370d2773044fe09738a26f7086
Author: Nicolas Pitre <[email-masked]>
Date:   Thu Aug 25 00:35:59 2011 -0400

    ARM: move iotable mappings within the vmalloc region
   
    In order to remove the build time variation between different SOCs
with
    regards to VMALLOC_END, the iotable mappings are now allocated inside
    the vmalloc region.  This allows for VMALLOC_END to be identical
across
    all machines.
   
    The value for VMALLOC_END is now set to 0xff000000 which is right
where
    the consistent DMA area starts.
   
    To accommodate all static mappings on machines with possible
highmem usage,
    the default vmalloc area size is changed to 240 MB so that
VMALLOC_START
    is no higher than 0xf0000000 by default.
   
    Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email-masked]>
    Tested-by: Stephen Warren <[email-masked]>
    Tested-by: Kevin Hilman <[email-masked]>
    Tested-by: Jamie Iles <[email-masked]>

Is it a known issue ?

kernel config file : http://pastebin.com/E6HngT58

Thanks
  -- Daniel

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