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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Janne M O Heikkinen <jmoheikk@cc.helsinki.fi>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86_64: 2.6.14 with NUMA panics at boot
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 19:30:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130607017.12551.5.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510291841.49214.ak@suse.de>

On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 18:41 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Saturday 29 October 2005 16:54, Janne M O Heikkinen wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Janne M O Heikkinen wrote:
> > 
> > > No, I get same panics with numa=noacpi or even with numa=off. If I compile
> > > 2.6.14 kernel without CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA it does boot.
> > 
> > It wasn't removing of CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA that made it boot after all, I had
> > also changed memory model from "Sparse" to "Discontiguous". And now
> > when I recompiled with CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA=y and with "Discontiguous" memory
> > model it booted just fine.
> 
> Ok, that would explain it. I never test sparse, only discontiguous.
> sparse is only an experimental option that is not really maintained
> yet. 	Probably need to disable it if it's broken.
> 
> Perhaps Dave H. knows what to do with it.

I'll try to dig up an Opteron machine on Monday and see what I can do.

-- Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-29 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-28 19:26 x86_64: 2.6.14 with NUMA panics at boot Janne M O Heikkinen
2005-10-28 21:06 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-28 22:06   ` Janne M O Heikkinen
2005-10-28 22:21     ` Janne M O Heikkinen
2005-10-29 10:01     ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-29 11:08       ` Janne M O Heikkinen
2005-10-29 14:54         ` Janne M O Heikkinen
2005-10-29 16:41           ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-29 17:30             ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2005-10-31  0:17               ` Bob Picco
2005-10-31  2:12                 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-31  1:40                   ` Bob Picco
2005-10-31  3:28                     ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-31  2:46                       ` Bob Picco
2005-11-02  5:07                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-11-02 18:08                     ` Andy Whitcroft
2005-11-03 14:43                       ` Bob Picco
2005-11-03 17:06                         ` Andy Whitcroft

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