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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Panic on ppc64 with numa_balancing and !sparsemem_vmemmap
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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:45:19 +0530
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Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:32:00PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
>> 
>> On a powerpc machine with CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y and CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
>> not enabled,  kernel panics.
>> 
>
> This?

This one fixed that crash on ppc64

http://mid.gmane.org/1393578122-6500-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com

-aneesh