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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dom0 crash with old style AMD NUMA detection
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:48:34 -0400
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> Acked-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
> 
> I compiled and boot-tested this on my (single node ;-) test box.
> First bare-metal, dmesg: No NUMA configuration found
> Then again, but with numa=off on the cmd-line: NUMA turned off
> Then under Xen as Dom0 kernel: NUMA turned off
> 
> So the code behaves under Xen as one would have explicitly specified
> numa=off, which is what we want.

Right.
> I couldn't get hold of the test machine (old K8 server) that the bug
> was once triggered, that's why I'm reluctant to give my Tested-by.
> Will try this ASAP.

OK, will wait with this - it would be a bit silly if the patch did not
fix the issue :-)