From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailhub.hp.com (mailhub.hp.com [192.151.27.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "mailhub.hp.com", Issuer "RSA Data Security, Inc." (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA8167B39 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:50:22 +1000 (EST) From: "Bob Picco" Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:29:44 -0400 To: "Luck, Tony" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner Message-ID: <20060411232944.GE23742@localhost> References: <20060411103946.18153.83059.sendpatchset@skynet> <20060411222029.GA7743@agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20060411222029.GA7743@agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@codemonkey.org.uk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , luck wrote: [Tue Apr 11 2006, 06:20:29PM EDT] > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:39:46AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > The patches have only been *compile tested* for ia64 with a flatmem > > configuration. At attempt was made to boot test on an ancient RS/6000 > > but the vanilla kernel does not boot so I have to investigate there. > > The good news: Compilation is clean on the ia64 config variants that > I usually build (all 10 of them). > > The bad (or at least consistent) news: It doesn't boot on an Intel > Tiger either (oops at kmem_cache_alloc+0x41). > > -Tony I had a reply queued to report the same failure with DISCONTIG+NUMA+VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP. This was 2 CPU HP rx2600. I'll take a closer look at the code tomorrow. bob