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SubjectCalibrating delay crash

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I'm having trouble booting a PentiumMMX @ 266 MHz board with 64 Mbytes
of RAM. The kernel crashes while in the main.c/calibrate_delay function.
It never boot, sometimes it fails and reboot, sometimes a page fault
occured. I tried with the kernels 2.4.21, 2.4.26 and 2.6.7 with the same
results.

I notice that if I return before the calibration loop, the system boots
fine. This has been tried only for testing.

void __init calibrate_delay(void)
{
unsigned long ticks, loopbit;
int lps_precision = LPS_PREC;

loops_per_jiffy = (1<<12);

return; <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

printk("Calibrating delay loop... ");
....

I look in the archive and one post points to a memory problem, I ran
memtest86 with no error found. Now I wonder what can cause this problem,
is it a hardware issue/timing? What can I do to investigate more? How
the calibrate_delay loop can crash the kernel?

Thanks.




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