From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754735AbYIOMwS (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:52:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753474AbYIOMwJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:52:09 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:35456 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753342AbYIOMwI (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:52:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:51:50 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Jan Beulich , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: fix combining of regions in init_memory_mapping() Message-ID: <20080915125150.GC304@elte.hu> References: <48CA9C18.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <86802c440809141120v5f468775n81de6a29bbb89019@mail.gmail.com> <48CE3633.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <86802c440809150134w3cd3f5baq2e99d2bb61b31a16@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86802c440809150134w3cd3f5baq2e99d2bb61b31a16@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Yinghai Lu wrote: > > The issue is apparently pretty benign to native code, but surfaces > > as a boot time crash in our forward ported Xen tree (where the page > > table setup overall works differently than in native). Since the > > underlying issue was present in native (and since I assume if there > > is an attempt to merge subsequent regions, then it should work > > right), I nevertheless submitted the patch for native inclusion. > > yes. your patch fixed the skip... > > Acked-by: Yinghai Lu applied to tip/x86/core, thanks! Ingo