From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932313Ab0JJKnb (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2010 06:43:31 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:56097 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932185Ab0JJKna (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2010 06:43:30 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:43:19 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Robin Holt Cc: Russ Anderson , Yinghai Lu , linux-kernel , tglx@linutronix.de, "H. Peter Anvin" , Jack Steiner Subject: Re: [BUG] x86: bootmem broken on SGI UV Message-ID: <20101010104319.GA9862@elte.hu> References: <20101008213429.GB7223@sgi.com> <4CAFA1DB.6010802@kernel.org> <20101009125944.GA18248@sgi.com> <20101009163908.GX14068@sgi.com> <20101010104129.GB30271@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101010104129.GB30271@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0007] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Robin Holt 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