Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 May 2006 01:35:25 +0100 (IST) | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: SCSI ABORT with 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 |
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On Fri, 19 May 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> mel@csn.ul.ie (Mel Gorman) wrote: >> >> I am struggling to see how the alignment patches or >> arch-independent-zone-sizing would clobber the mapping of the ACPI table :( > > hm. Well something did it ;) >
Obviously. One option is to back out have-x86_64-use-add_active_range-and-free_area_init_nodes.patch and see what happens on Christian's machine.
>> > I also managed to provoke "Too many memory regions, >> > truncating" out of it. >> > >> >> "Too many memory regions, truncating" is of concern because memory will be >> effectively lost. Is this on x86_64 as well? If so, I need to submit a >> patch that sets CONFIG_MAX_ACTIVE_REGIONS to 128 on x86_64 which is the >> same value of E820MAX. This is similar to what PPC64 does for LMB regions >> (see MAX_ACTIVE_REGIONS in arch/powerpc/Kconfig for example). If it's not >> x86_64, what arch does it occur on? > > Yes, it's x86_64. It kind of went away though. I seem to have been > finding various .config combinations which cause x86_64 to die horridly - > that was one. >
Can you post up some of the configs and I'll see can I reproduce it locally please?
-- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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