From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.31-git5 kernel boot hangs on powerpc
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:48:31 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1253872111.7103.520.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ABC86E0.9090807@kernel.org>
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 18:01 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > With this patch applied the machine boots OK :-)
>
> Ah... so, the problem really is too high address. If you've got some
> time, it might be interesting to find out how far high is safe.
>
Might give me a clue about what the problem is but I think I'll just
cook up a test case that forcibly vmap something high up and see how it
goes from there. It could be a very old bug that nobody ever noticed
because our vmalloc space on 64-bit is so huge :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-25 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-16 12:25 2.6.31-git5 kernel boot hangs on powerpc Sachin Sant
2009-09-17 10:51 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-17 11:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-17 15:53 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-17 16:41 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-19 8:54 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-23 8:23 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-23 8:34 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-23 14:17 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-24 7:58 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-24 12:59 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-24 13:23 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-24 21:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-25 3:22 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-25 3:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-25 7:15 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-25 7:39 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-25 7:43 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-25 8:03 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-25 9:01 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-25 9:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-10-05 6:54 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-25 8:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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