Bug#907175: 4.9.0-8-686-pae swapon failed invalid argument

From	Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#907175: 4.9.0-8-686-pae swapon failed invalid argument
Date	2018-10-26 16:10 +0200
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On 26.10.18 15:38, William Salmon wrote:

> Ubuntu bug #1788321 says they have fixed this in kernels: 
> 4.4.0-137-generic #163~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 24 17:13:32 UTC 2018 i686 
> (above is Ubuntu16/14)
> and 
> 4.15.0-36-generic #39-Ubuntu i686
> 
> This is still an issue with latest kernel on 32-bit Debian 9 kernel :
> 	4.9.0-8-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u6 (2018-10-08) 
> gives:	swapon: /dev/sdb1: swapon failed: Invalid argument
> 
> so we are stuck on 4.9.0-7 
> 
> Any news on a fix, please ?

Since this bug can only happen on 64bit capable CPUs with 42+ bits
physical address size, a valid workaround is to install the amd64
kernel. (At least this is what I did for my affected systems for the
time being.)

A proper fix would be of course nice.

Grüße,
Sven.

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