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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] x86: bootmem broken on SGI UV
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:43:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101010104319.GA9862@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101010104129.GB30271@elte.hu>


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 07:59:45AM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote:
> > > Yes, Yinghai's patch fixes the problem.
> > > Thank you very much.
> > 
> > Will this be included in 2.6.36?  It is needed for boot in order for UV
> > systems to boot.
> 
> -tip uses memblock APIs. If this happens with vanilla -git as well 
> then we need a bootmem backport for the fix.

And to answer your question: yes, we can queue it up for -final as well 
if it's a recent regression - 'doesnt boot at all' bugs are nasty. But 
i'm not sure this is a bootmem problem so please double check vanilla 
v2.6.36-rc7 as well.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-10 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-08 21:34 [BUG] x86: bootmem broken on SGI UV Russ Anderson
2010-10-08 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-08 22:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-10-08 22:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-10-09 12:59   ` Russ Anderson
2010-10-09 16:39     ` Robin Holt
2010-10-09 18:06       ` Yinghai Lu
2010-10-09 18:17         ` [PATCH -v2] x86, numa: Fix cross nodes memory configuration Yinghai Lu
2010-10-09 18:39         ` [BUG] x86: bootmem broken on SGI UV Linus Torvalds
2010-10-10 10:41       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-10 10:43         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-10-10 11:44           ` Robin Holt
2010-10-10 11:56             ` Robin Holt
2010-10-10 14:05               ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-10 22:51                 ` Robin Holt
2010-10-11  2:52                   ` [PATCH -v3] x86, numa: Fix cross nodes memory configuration Yinghai Lu
2010-10-11 22:01                     ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, numa: For each node, register the memory blocks actually used tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-10-11 22:05                       ` David Rientjes
2010-10-11 22:21                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-11 22:28                     ` tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-10  1:04 [BUG] x86: bootmem broken on SGI UV Anvin, H Peter

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