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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Amul Shah <amul.shah@unisys.com>
Cc: vgoyal@in.ibm.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Fastboot mailing list <fastboot@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2.6.19-rc4] kdump panics early in boot when   reserving MP Tables located in high memory
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:52:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611032052.05738.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162583277.19677.108.camel@ustr-linux-shaha1.unisys.com>

On Friday 03 November 2006 20:47, Amul Shah wrote:

> Andi, Vivek is right.  We can use end_pfn_map.  My observation is wrong.

Ok. Then my patch should work?

> Vivek, the problem condition is in generic reserve_bootmem_core
> (mm/bootmem.c), where this
> 	BUG_ON(PFN_DOWN(addr) >= bdata->node_low_pfn);
> checks the target address against the top of that node's memory.

In general these early BUGs should be eliminated - they are always
messy because the kernel exception handlers are not fully functional
yet. printks or worst case panics are better.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-03 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-02 22:24 [RFC] [PATCH 2.6.19-rc4] kdump panics early in boot when reserving MP Tables located in high memory Amul Shah
2006-11-02 23:36 ` [Fastboot] " Vivek Goyal
2006-11-03 14:30   ` Amul Shah
2006-11-03  2:40 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-03 14:55   ` Amul Shah
2006-11-03 16:51     ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-03 17:17       ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-03 19:47         ` Amul Shah
2006-11-03 19:52           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-11-03 21:17             ` Amul Shah
2006-11-03 22:01               ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-03 17:40       ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-03 18:43         ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-03 18:51           ` Vivek Goyal

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