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From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [bootfix] pass used_node_mask by reference in 2.6.10-mm1
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:06:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105059997.19633.2.camel@arrakis> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501031244.06651.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 12:44, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Monday, January 3, 2005 11:50 am, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:13:19AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > > Without passing this parameter by reference, the changes to
> > > used_node_mask are meaningless and do not affect the caller's copy.
> > > This leads to boot-time failure. This proposed fix passes it by
> > > reference.
> >
> > This proposed fix is an actual fix according to my own testing.
> >
> > Without the patch applied, my quad em64t does not boot, and livelocks
> > prior to console_init().
> >
> > With the patch applied, my quad em64 boots and runs normally.
> 
> Makes my Altix boot as well.  Thanks for the fix.
> 
> Jesse

Yep.  Thanks for that, Bill!  That was pretty stupid of me, although I
did manage to get a couple machines over here to boot with the broken
code...?

-Matt


      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-07  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-03 19:13 [bootfix] pass used_node_mask by reference in 2.6.10-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-03 19:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-03 20:44   ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-07  1:06     ` Matthew Dobson [this message]

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