Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 03 May 2008 21:05:15 +0900 | From | Yasunori Goto <> | Subject | Re: powerpc boot regression |
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> > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:13 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:12:41PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > > > > This commit causes bootup failures on sparc64: > > > > > > commit 86f6dae1377523689bd8468fed2f2dd180fc0560 > > > Author: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> > > > Date: Mon Apr 28 02:13:33 2008 -0700 > > > > > > memory hotplug: allocate usemap on the section with pgdat > > > > > > <snip> > > > > We're seeing a boot failure on powerpc. git bisect points the problem > > at this commit. However reverting just this one comitt doesn't fix the > > regression. I also needed to revert > > 04753278769f3b6c3b79a080edb52f21d83bf6e2 (memory hotplug: register > > section/node id to free") > > > > Problem seen on power4, power5 and ps3. > > I don't see the problem on my power5 machine. Can you send the > config ? Is CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled ? > > Please let me know.
I heard sparc has the similar regression.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120953950332044&w=2
If Kame-san's temporary patch fixes your problems, its cause may be same.
Thanks.
-- Yasunori Goto
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