From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267830AbUHERoS (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:44:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267832AbUHERoS (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:44:18 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.133]:17904 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267830AbUHERoD (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:44:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] break out zone free list initialization From: Dave Hansen To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20040805012424.7da14c83.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1091034585.2871.142.camel@nighthawk> <20040805012424.7da14c83.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1091727817.27397.8123.camel@nighthawk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:43:37 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 01:24, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > The following patch removes the individual free area initialization from > > free_area_init_core(), and puts it in a new function > > zone_init_free_lists(). It also creates pages_to_bitmap_size(), which > > is then used in zone_init_free_lists() as well as several times in my > > free area bitmap resizing patch. > > This causes my very ordinary p4 testbox to crash very early in boot. It's > quite pretty, with nice colourful stripes of blinking text on the display. Just for a sanity check: are there other machines that it booted on without any problems for you? I'll go steal someone's P4 desktop and retest. -- Dave