From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: jbarnes@engr.sgi.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bootfix] pass used_node_mask by reference in 2.6.10-mm1
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:50:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050103195016.GP29332@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050103191319.GO29332@holomorphy.com>
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.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-03 19:50 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 [this message]
2005-01-03 20:44 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-07 1:06 ` Matthew Dobson
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