From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Commit 722bc6b167 breaks booting on an 8TB system.
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 05:07:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120604100700.GA4948@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQWJR6x4_Xhc2k5TFkCj2u5cpbcWf-jFWOB5pEuBQcoJrQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 12:00:29AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote:
> > I just tried to boot an 8TB system. It fails very early in boot with:
> >
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: Cannot find space for the kernel page tables
> >
> >
> > A git bisect lead me to commit 722bc6b16771ed80871e1fd81c86d3627dda2ac8.
> >
> > A git revert of that commit based on Linus' current as of a few hours ago
> > (commit fb21aff) does boot past that point on the 8TB configuration.
>
> have some local patches. please check if they are helping...
I will not have access to the machine until late tonight/early tomorrow
(approximately 24 hours from now). I will try to give the patches a
run then. Would you like them tested individually or as a set?
Robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-04 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-01 15:54 Commit 722bc6b167 breaks booting on an 8TB system Robin Holt
2012-06-02 14:24 ` Ethan.kernel@gmail
2012-06-03 7:00 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-04 10:07 ` Robin Holt [this message]
2012-06-04 23:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-06 9:42 ` Robin Holt
2012-06-06 9:48 ` Robin Holt
2012-06-06 9:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-06-06 10:46 ` Robin Holt
2012-06-06 17:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-06 18:54 ` Robin Holt
2012-06-08 14:48 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm: Only add extra pages count for the first memory range during pre-allocation early page table space tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
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