From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, gregkh@suse.de, bunk@stusta.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au,
mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz, nathans@sgi.com
Subject: Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for 2.6.16-rc5
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:52:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060308155247.76a4fcc0.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141861551.8599.112.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:29 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > - It would be nice to get Martin MOKREJ
> > <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>'s full 16GB recognised again. Dave
> > Hansen is working on that.
>
> Martin, please step in here if your problem has come back...
>
> After Martin applied my debugging patch, the problem went away. Last I
> heard, he was going to boot back into a kernel without my patch to see
> if it stayed fixed.
>
> My guess is that it is be a screwy BIOS that is causing the problem
> intermittently. Otherwise, I can't imagine how some printks could
> affect the problem. It's not like this is happening in code where there
> are SMP races.
>
> I also checked around the office a bit to see if anyone else was having
> memory detection issues on large memory x86 machines. No luck.
OK, thanks Dave.
> I'd put this into the "unreproducible" bucket for now.
IBM must make big buckets.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-08 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-06 22:35 State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for 2.6.16-rc5 Greg KH
2006-03-06 22:47 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-06 23:00 ` Greg KH
2006-03-08 22:26 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-08 22:50 ` Greg KH
2006-03-08 23:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-08 23:18 ` Greg KH
2006-03-08 23:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-09 18:40 ` Tomasz Torcz
2006-03-09 19:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-09 20:10 ` Ben Collins
2006-03-09 20:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-15 16:03 ` Ben Collins
2006-03-09 20:52 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-09 21:06 ` SMP on UP (Was Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for 2.6.16-rc5) Ben Collins
2006-03-09 21:47 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-09 21:07 ` State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for 2.6.16-rc5 David S. Miller
2006-03-09 20:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-09 20:46 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-09 21:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-08 23:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 23:45 ` Dave Hansen
2006-03-08 23:52 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-09 10:24 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2006-03-08 23:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-08 23:18 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-08 23:23 ` Greg KH
2006-03-08 23:34 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-08 23:40 ` Greg KH
2006-03-09 0:03 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-08 23:21 ` Greg KH
2006-03-09 4:01 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2006-03-09 5:34 ` Greg KH
2006-03-09 5:11 ` Lee Revell
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060308155247.76a4fcc0.akpm@osdl.org \
--to=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=bunk@stusta.de \
--cc=gregkh@suse.de \
--cc=haveblue@us.ibm.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz \
--cc=mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz \
--cc=nathans@sgi.com \
--cc=neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au \
--cc=pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net \
--cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox