From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early_param mem= fix
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 04:06:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608070406.45359.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060806121530.eac1dd37.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sunday 06 August 2006 21:15, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:22:04 +0100 (BST)
> Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
>
> > I was impressed by how fast 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 is under memory pressure,
> > until I noticed that my "mem=512M" boot option was doing nothing. The
> > two fixes below got it working, but I wonder how many other early_param
> > "option=" args are wrong (e.g. "memmap=" in the same file): x86_64
> > shows many such, i386 shows only one, I've not followed it up further.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Andi, it sounds like so many fixes will be needed there that it's worth
> dropping, pending rev #2.
Yes, it looks like it. Now I remember why I dropped this a long time
ago already ;-)
After fixing Hugh's issue with all parameters
(there were some more with this) the kernel goes into an endless loop
at boot when you have one which is a full prefix of another.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-07 2:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-06 17:22 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early_param mem= fix Hugh Dickins
2006-08-06 17:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-08-07 15:08 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-08-07 21:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-09 0:10 ` Keith Mannthey
2006-08-09 1:03 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-09 1:27 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 19:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-07 2:06 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-07 2:54 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-07 2:55 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 3:08 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-07 3:13 ` Andi Kleen
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