Re: [BUG] x86: bootmem broken on SGI UV

[Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>]

On 10/08/2010 02:34 PM, Russ Anderson wrote:
> 	[BUG] x86: bootmem broken on SGI UV
> 
> Recent community kernels do not boot on SGI UV x86 hardware with
> more than one socket.  I suspect the problem is due to recent 
> bootmem/e820 changes.
> 
> What is happening is the e280 table defines a memory range.
> 
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000001080000000 (usable)
> 
> The SRAT table shows that memory range is spread over two nodes.
> 
>  SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 100000000-800000000
>  SRAT: Node 1 PXM 1 800000000-1000000000
>  SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 1000000000-1080000000
> 
> Previously, the kernel early_node_map[] would show three entries
> with the proper node.
>                                                                                 
> [    0.000000]     0: 0x00100000 -> 0x00800000
> [    0.000000]     1: 0x00800000 -> 0x01000000
> [    0.000000]     0: 0x01000000 -> 0x01080000
> 
> The problem is recent community kernel early_node_map[] shows 
> only two entries with the node 0 entry overlapping the node 1
> entry.
> 
>     0: 0x00100000 -> 0x01080000
>     1: 0x00800000 -> 0x01000000
> 

found the root cause, will send patch out today or tomorrow.

Thanks

Yinghai