From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: 32bit panic on 4 sockets
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:34:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090304103405.GA4879@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236155659.5330.6837.camel@laptop>
* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 22:57 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > Looks like a genuine bootmem bug. Cc'ing Johannes and
> > > quoting whole body.
> >
> > it is x86 32bit numa code problem. it assume bootmem will
> > sit on first node only.
>
> Seems a bit daft to run a 32bit kernel on such a machine.. at
> some point we should just give up and not push this 32 bit
> madness any further.
it works just fine on a lot of systems - and since we keep
unifying a lot of these codepaths we are better off keeping it
all working.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-04 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-03-04 1:51 ` 32bit panic on 4 sockets Yinghai Lu
2009-03-04 2:05 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-04 3:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-04 6:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-04 8:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-04 10:34 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-03-04 10:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-04 11:07 ` Ingo Molnar
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