From: Jon Tollefson <kniht@us.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] fix bootmem reservation on uninitialized node
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:30:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49404311.1000701@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18752.16188.480990.923571@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Dave Hansen writes:
>
>
>> This patch ensures that we do not touch bootmem for any node which
>> has not been initialized.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>
> So, should I be sending this to Linus for 2.6.28?
>
> I notice you have added a dbg() call. For a 2.6.28 patch I'd somewhat
> prefer not to have that in unless necessary.
>
> Jon, does this patch fix the problem on your machine with 16G pages?
>
It worked on a machine with one page, I am awaiting access to another
with more pages.
> Paul.
>
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-10 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-09 18:21 [PATCH 0/8] Fix a bug and cleanup NUMA boot-time code Dave Hansen
2008-12-09 18:21 ` [PATCH 1/8] fix bootmem reservation on uninitialized node Dave Hansen
2008-12-10 22:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-10 22:30 ` Jon Tollefson [this message]
2008-12-10 22:54 ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-09 18:21 ` [PATCH 2/8] Add better comment on careful_allocation() Dave Hansen
2008-12-09 18:21 ` [PATCH 3/8] cleanup careful_allocation(): bootmem already panics Dave Hansen
2008-12-09 18:21 ` [PATCH 4/8] make careful_allocation() return vaddrs Dave Hansen
2008-12-09 18:21 ` [PATCH 5/8] cleanup careful_allocation(): consolidate memset() Dave Hansen
2008-12-09 18:21 ` [PATCH 6/8] cleanup do_init_bootmem() Dave Hansen
2008-12-09 21:54 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-12-16 5:06 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-09 18:21 ` [PATCH 7/8] less use of NODE_DATA() Dave Hansen
2008-12-16 5:16 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-09 18:21 ` [PATCH 8/8] make free_bootmem_with_active_regions() take pgdat Dave Hansen
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