Bug 587957

Summary: Linux VM hangs while hot adding memory in VMware [rhel-5.5.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Benjamin Kahn <bkahn>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jiri Pirko <jpirko>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 5.0CC: bkahn, bmr, cdahlin, dhoward, jpirko, jwest, kzhang, lwoodman, pm-eus, prarit, rkhan, sputhenp, tao, uobergfe, zamsden
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Hot-adding memory to a system with 4 GB of RAM caused problems with 32-bit DMA devices, which led to the system becoming unresponsive. With this update, the user is warned that more than 4 GB of RAM is being added to the system; however, memory exceeding 4 GB is not registered by the system.
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Bug Depends On: 571544    
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Description Benjamin Kahn 2010-05-01 18:38:10 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #571544 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Jiri Pirko 2010-05-13 15:06:40 UTC
in 2.6.18-194.4.1.el5

Comment 7 Douglas Silas 2010-06-28 20:12:44 UTC
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
Hot-adding memory to a system with 4 GB of RAM caused problems with 32-bit DMA devices, which led to the system becoming unresponsive. With this update, the user is warned that more than 4 GB of RAM is being added to the system; however, memory exceeding 4 GB is not registered by the system. (BZ#587957)

Comment 8 Douglas Silas 2010-06-28 20:14:08 UTC
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

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-Hot-adding memory to a system with 4 GB of RAM caused problems with 32-bit DMA devices, which led to the system becoming unresponsive. With this update, the user is warned that more than 4 GB of RAM is being added to the system; however, memory exceeding 4 GB is not registered by the system. (BZ#587957)+Hot-adding memory to a system with 4 GB of RAM caused problems with 32-bit DMA devices, which led to the system becoming unresponsive. With this update, the user is warned that more than 4 GB of RAM is being added to the system; however, memory exceeding 4 GB is not registered by the system.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2010-07-01 18:28:22 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0504.html