From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933725AbXBZAoh (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:44:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933733AbXBZAoh (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:44:37 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:55919 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933725AbXBZAog (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:44:36 -0500 Subject: Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough From: David Woodhouse To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, john stultz In-Reply-To: References: <200612112059.kBBKx1j7022473@hera.kernel.org> <1172448057.3971.9.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:45:04 -0500 Message-Id: <1172450704.3971.30.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-1.fc6.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 16:24 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Hmm. No, I don't think that should be a problem. free_initmem() only > happens at the very, after do_basic_setup() has been run, which includes > all the initcall stuff. > However, it's an interesting observation. How sure are you that it's this > commit that triggers it. You say "This seems to be what's triggering ..", > I'm wondering how firm that is.. I found it with git-bisect. The Fedora kernel has been broken on this particular 512MiB Mac Mini for a while, and now I've reverted the patch it seems to be fine again. So I'm fairly sure. I'll be surer in a few minutes once the full RPM build has finished with the patch reverted. Of course, it could easily be an entirely separate bug which by some bizarre coincidence is just triggered by this. -- dwmw2