From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, LinuxPPC-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: powerpc boot regression
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 12:01:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481A1399.8020304@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209653507.27240.7.camel@badari-desktop>
Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:13 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:12:41PM -0700, David Miller 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
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> We're seeing a boot failure on powerpc. git bisect points the problem
>> at this commit. However reverting just this one comitt doesn't fix the
>> regression. I also needed to revert
>> 04753278769f3b6c3b79a080edb52f21d83bf6e2 (memory hotplug: register
>> section/node id to free")
>>
>> Problem seen on power4, power5 and ps3.
>
> I don't see the problem on my power5 machine. Can you send the
> config ? Is CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled ?
The bug is hit with ps3_defconfig. It does not have
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP set.
-Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-01 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 6:12 sparc64 bootup regression David Miller
2008-04-30 6:38 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-30 6:46 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-30 7:15 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-30 7:25 ` David Miller
2008-04-30 7:33 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-30 12:53 ` Yasunori Goto
2008-06-03 22:14 ` David Miller
2008-06-04 5:05 ` Yasunori Goto
2008-04-30 7:30 ` Heiko Carstens
2008-04-30 7:44 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-30 7:45 ` Heiko Carstens
2008-04-30 7:19 ` David Miller
2008-05-07 22:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-05-07 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 22:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-05-07 22:46 ` David Miller
2008-05-01 5:13 ` powerpc boot regression Tony Breeds
2008-05-01 14:51 ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-05-01 19:01 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2008-05-01 23:07 ` Tony Breeds
2008-05-03 12:05 ` Yasunori Goto
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