Re: sparc64 bootup regression...

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:12:41 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> 
> This commit causes bootup failures on sparc64:
> 
> commit 86f6dae1377523689bd8468fed2f2dd180fc0560
> Author: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Date:   Mon Apr 28 02:13:33 2008 -0700
> 
>     memory hotplug: allocate usemap on the section with pgdat
>     
>     Usemaps are allocated on the section which has pgdat by this.
>     
>     Because usemap size is very small, many other sections usemaps are allocated
>     on only one page.  If a section has usemap, it can't be removed until removing
>     other sections.  This dependency is not desirable for memory removing.
>     
>     Pgdat has similar feature.  When a section has pgdat area, it must be the last
>     section for removing on the node.  So, if section A has pgdat and section B
>     has usemap for section A, Both sections can't be removed due to dependency
>     each other.
>     
>     To solve this issue, this patch collects usemap on same section with pgdat.
>     If other sections doesn't have any dependency, this section will be able to be
>     removed finally.

Thanks.  Does a straightforward revert fix it?  If so, we could do that while heads
are being scratched.