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
prev parent 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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