From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com (e5.ny.us.ibm.com [32.97.182.145]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e5.ny.us.ibm.com", Issuer "Equifax" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 18714DDEE9 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:57:38 +1100 (EST) Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9TKuxO7005098 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:57:01 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id m9TKuxkK136986 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:56:59 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m9TKuxLU012615 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:56:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4908CE18.3030205@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:56:56 -0500 From: Jon Tollefson MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@kernel.org Subject: 16G related patches for stable kernel 2.6.27 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linuxppc-dev , Linux Kernel Development List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Please consider the following patches for the 2.6.27 stable tree. The first two allow a powerpc machine with more then 2 numa nodes to boot when 16G pages are enabled. The third one allows a powerpc machine to boot if using 16G pages and the mem= boot param. thanks, Jon powerpc: Reserve in bootmem lmb reserved regions that cross NUMA nodes commit 8f64e1f2d1e09267ac926e15090fd505c1c0cbcb powerpc/numa: Make memory reserve code more robust commit e81703724a966120ace6504c993bda9e084cbf3e powerpc: Don't use a 16G page if beyond mem= limits commit 4792adbac9eb41cea77a45ab76258ea10d411173