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From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: pseries (power3) boot hang  (pageblock_nr_pages==0)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:52:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071128105211.GB2238@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196105757.11297.11.camel@farscape.rchland.ibm.com>

On (26/11/07 13:35), Will Schmidt didst pronounce:
> 
> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 22:03 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On (21/11/07 15:55), Will Schmidt didst pronounce:
> > > Hi Folks, 
> > > 
> > > I imagine this would be properly fixed with something similar to the
> > > change for iSeries.  
> > 
> > Have you tried with the patch that fixed the iSeries boot problem?
> > Thanks for tracking down the problem to such a specific place.
> 
> I had not, but gave this patch a spin this morning, and it does the
> job.  :-)  

Brilliant.

> I was thinking (without really looking at it), that the
> iseries fix was in platform specific code.   Silly me. :-)
> 
> So for the record, this patch also fixes power3 pSeries systems.
> 
> fwiw:
> Tested-By:  Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
> 

Thanks a lot for reporting and testing Will.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab

      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-21 21:55 pseries (power3) boot hang (pageblock_nr_pages==0) Will Schmidt
2007-11-21 22:03 ` Mel Gorman
2007-11-26 19:35   ` Will Schmidt
2007-11-28 10:52     ` Mel Gorman [this message]

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