[flashrom] flashrom: Can't mmap memory

Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com
Thu Sep 30 14:43:36 CEST 2010


On 30/09/10 13:25, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 30/09/10 13:13, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> I noticed that the broken kernel is apparently some self-built kernel,
>> possibly with extra patches. Still, I'd like to make sure it works fine
>> if at all possible.
> 
> It's F12 official, rebuilt with a patch to a network driver.
> No changes to config.
> 
>> Could you add the following kernel parameters to the command line of the
>> broken kernel?
>> noexec=off nopat acpi_enforce_resources=lax highmem=0K iomem=relaxed
>>
>> The character after "highmen=" is a zero.
> 
> OK :)
> 
>> A combination of these parameters may fix it.
> 
> No change with all of the above included :(

Hmm doing an strace shows:

sys_physmap_rw_uncached (phys_addr=FFF00000, size=1048576) {
  mmap2(NULL, 1048576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 5, 0xffffffffffffff00) = -1 EOVERFLOW
}

I at first thought that strace was just getting it wrong,
but perhaps something (glibc?) is messing up and doing
a signed right shift of the address, and thus mangling the address.

more digging...

cheers,
Pádraig.




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