Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:22:37 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1) |
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:56:09 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > > > Hi Andrew, Ingo, Thomas, Peter, > > > > > > x86: revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem > > > > > > The patch caused a failure while booting a kexec kernel. > > > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/42 has the bisect details.) > > > > > > The following patch reverts it. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > > > Thanks for tracking this down. I'll pull the patch from the x86 git > > tree as well. > > Dhaval, how about the other problem you had - do you have any guess > what it might be related to? > > i'm also wondering - what would be the easiest way to integrate kexec > into an automated test environment. If i have a bzImage kernel, is kexec > still supposed to work? Could i for example do a reboot into a new > (kexec-enabled) kernel via kexec in essence?
My daily/nightly kernel test runs use kexec to boot the test kernel. Well, did thru 2.6.24-rc6-git9, but they fail after that. Hopefully this patch fixes things.
--- ~Randy
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