Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:16:59 +0100 (IST) | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: x86_64 account-for-memmap patch in 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 doesn't boot. |
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Mel Gorman wrote: >> I could do with those lines, but I believe there was enough information >> printed to determine why it failed to boot. I've attached a patch that >> should boot the machine and assuming it works, I just need the output of >> dmesg. > > Yup - that patch booted it, and produced the output you asked for. > > Here's the dmesg output from booting your patch: > > <dmesg log snipped>
Thanks. Now it's *painfully* obvious what went wrong - memmap is not necessarily in one zone and in your machine memmap spanned two zones. A patch will follow this mail that fixes the underlying issue but keeps the underflow check in case. Please give it a test if you get the chance. It passes regression tests here.
-- 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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