Re: [patch] fix bootmem regression on Altix

[Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>]

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Russ Anderson wrote:
> [patch] fix bootmem regression on Altix
> 
> A recent change prevents SGI Altix from booting.
> This patch fixes the problem.
> 
> The regresson was introduced in commit 434d53b00d6bb7be0a1d3dcc0d0d5df6c042e164

Could we get this into mainline? My Altix box won't boot without this
patch either and applying it on top of all trees after the
above-mentioned commit is annoying when bisecting. :(

Anyway, thank you for your patch, Russ!

Petr Tesarik

> Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
> 
> ---
>  kernel/sched.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: test/kernel/sched.c
> =================================> --- test.orig/kernel/sched.c	2008-04-23 16:00:58.000000000 -0500
> +++ test/kernel/sched.c	2008-04-23 16:01:33.047453963 -0500
> @@ -8127,7 +8127,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
>  	 * we use alloc_bootmem().
>  	 */
>  	if (alloc_size) {
> -		ptr = (unsigned long)alloc_bootmem_low(alloc_size);
> +		ptr = (unsigned long)alloc_bootmem(alloc_size);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
>  		init_task_group.se = (struct sched_entity **)ptr;

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