Bug 587957
Summary: | Linux VM hangs while hot adding memory in VMware [rhel-5.5.z] | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Benjamin Kahn <bkahn> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jiri Pirko <jpirko> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> |
Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | urgent | ||
Version: | 5.0 | CC: | bkahn, bmr, cdahlin, dhoward, jpirko, jwest, kzhang, lwoodman, pm-eus, prarit, rkhan, sputhenp, tao, uobergfe, zamsden |
Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: |
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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Last Closed: | 2010-07-01 18:28:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 571544 | ||
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Description
Benjamin Kahn
2010-05-01 18:38:10 UTC
in 2.6.18-194.4.1.el5 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) 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. Diffed Contents: @@ -1 +1 @@ -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. 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 |