From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm2
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:23:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040922232330.2cec2a08.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409222043.01098.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:39 pm, Peter Chubb wrote:
> > >>>>> "Jesse" = Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> writes:
> >
> > Jesse> On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 4:12 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >> - This kernel doesn't work on ia64 (instant reboot). But neither
> > >> does 2.6.9-rc2, nor current Linus -bk. Is it just me?
> >
> > Jesse> I certainly hope so. Current bk works on my 2p Altix, and iirc
> > Jesse> 2.6.9-rc2 worked as well. I'm trying 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 right now.
> > Jesse> I haven't tried generic_defconfig yet either, maybe that's it?
> >
> > It no longer works on ZX. Don't know why.
>
> Maybe this is another, more severe instance of the problem James reported last
> week that was worked around by enabling CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM.
>
It looks like Tony is wearing the BPB. The below patch from September 8 is
what causes my non-discontigmem virtual-mem-map ia64 box instantly reboot.
Reverting it makes things happy.
--- b/include/asm-ia64/page.h 2004-09-08 10:23:43 -07:00
+++ b/include/asm-ia64/page.h 2004-09-08 16:12:10 -07:00
@@ -86,13 +86,14 @@
#ifndef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
# ifdef CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP
extern struct page *vmem_map;
-# define pfn_valid(pfn) (((pfn) < max_mapnr) && ia64_pfn_valid(pfn))
-# define page_to_pfn(page) ((unsigned long) (page - vmem_map))
-# define pfn_to_page(pfn) (vmem_map + (pfn))
+# define pfn_valid(pfn) (((pfn) < max_mapnr) && ia64_pfn_valid(pfn))
+# define page_to_pfn(page) ((unsigned long) (page - vmem_map))
+# define pfn_to_page(pfn) (vmem_map + (pfn))
+# else
+# define pfn_valid(pfn) (((pfn) < max_mapnr) && ia64_pfn_valid(pfn))
+# define page_to_pfn(page) ((unsigned long) (page - mem_map))
+# define pfn_to_page(pfn) (mem_map + (pfn))
# endif
-#define pfn_valid(pfn) (((pfn) < max_mapnr) && ia64_pfn_valid(pfn))
-#define page_to_pfn(page) ((unsigned long) (page - mem_map))
-#define pfn_to_page(pfn) (mem_map + (pfn))
#endif /* CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM */
#define page_to_phys(page) (page_to_pfn(page) << PAGE_SHIFT)
Process question: how is it possible that the ia64 tree could have been
this dead for this long?
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-23 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-09-23 6:23 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-09-23 16:10 ` 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 Luck, Tony
2004-09-23 18:31 ` 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
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