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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 11/14] bootmem: respect goal more likely
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:22:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877id4jnoj.fsf@saeurebad.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080605134455.6457.E1E9C6FF@jp.fujitsu.com> (Yasunori Goto's message of "Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:26:29 +0900")

Hi,

Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:

> Hi.
>
>> >> 
>> >> Could you boot a working image with bootmem_debug in the command line?
>> >> Perhaps seeing the usual bootmem usage on this box gives a hint what is
>> >> broken.
>> >
>> > Ok. I'll try it.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>
> I attached bootmem log with related message. 
> If you realize anything, please let me know.
>
> Note: 
>   In this hardware configuration, node 1 to 16 are "memory less" node.
>   They may be hot-added later.
>   So, there are some messages of "no start_pfn".
>   But, for_each_loop of bootmem skips them because ia64 kernel checks
>   "memory less" node and skip to call init_bootmem_node().
>   I think it is not cause.

Thank you very much.  I think I spotted the bug and will provide an
explanation and a patch when I am awake again.

	Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-05  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-03  0:50 [PATCH -mm 00/14] bootmem rewrite v3 Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 01/14] bootmem: reorder code to match new bootmem structure Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 02/14] bootmem: clean up bootmem.c file header Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 03/14] bootmem: add documentation to API functions Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 04/14] bootmem: add debugging framework Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 05/14] bootmem: revisit bitmap size calculations Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 06/14] bootmem: revisit bootmem descriptor list handling Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 07/14] bootmem: clean up free_all_bootmem_core Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 08/14] bootmem: clean up alloc_bootmem_core Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 09/14] bootmem: free/reserve helpers Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 10/14] bootmem: factor out the marking of a PFN range Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 11/14] bootmem: respect goal more likely Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03 13:59   ` Yasunori Goto
2008-06-03 16:16     ` Johannes Weiner
2008-06-04 10:55       ` Yasunori Goto
2008-06-04 20:25         ` Johannes Weiner
2008-06-05  2:58           ` Yasunori Goto
2008-06-05  4:13             ` Johannes Weiner
     [not found]               ` <20080605134455.6457.E1E9C6FF@jp.fujitsu.com>
2008-06-05  8:22                 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2008-06-05  8:31               ` Yasunori Goto
2008-06-05 16:41                 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-06-06  0:25                   ` Yasunori Goto
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 12/14] bootmem: Make __alloc_bootmem_low_node fall back to other nodes Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 13/14] bootmem: revisit alloc_bootmem_section Johannes Weiner
2008-06-03  0:50 ` [PATCH -mm 14/14] bootmem: replace node_boot_start in struct bootmem_data Johannes Weiner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-05 22:49 [PATCH -mm 00/14] bootmem rewrite v4 Johannes Weiner
2008-06-05 22:49 ` [PATCH -mm 11/14] bootmem: respect goal more likely Johannes Weiner
2008-05-30 19:42 [PATCH -mm 00/14] bootmem rewrite v2 Johannes Weiner
2008-05-30 19:42 ` [PATCH -mm 11/14] bootmem: respect goal more likely Johannes Weiner
2008-05-30 20:16   ` Johannes Weiner

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