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    SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1)
    On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:22:37AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
    > 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.
    >

    hmmm. I don't think so. This revert is from the x86 git tree (-mm) (I think
    targetted for 2.6.25). Probably a bisect might help there.

    --
    regards,
    Dhaval


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