Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [bootfix] pass used_node_mask by reference in 2.6.10-mm1 | From | Matthew Dobson <> | Date | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:06:37 -0800 |
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On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 12:44, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Monday, January 3, 2005 11:50 am, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:13:19AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > > Without passing this parameter by reference, the changes to > > > used_node_mask are meaningless and do not affect the caller's copy. > > > This leads to boot-time failure. This proposed fix passes it by > > > reference. > > > > This proposed fix is an actual fix according to my own testing. > > > > Without the patch applied, my quad em64t does not boot, and livelocks > > prior to console_init(). > > > > With the patch applied, my quad em64 boots and runs normally. > > Makes my Altix boot as well. Thanks for the fix. > > Jesse
Yep. Thanks for that, Bill! That was pretty stupid of me, although I did manage to get a couple machines over here to boot with the broken code...?
-Matt
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