Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:43:51 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: bisected crash due to "x86: Move swiotlb initialization before dma32_free_bootmem" |
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* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:56:50 +0100 > > Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > > >> * FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote: > >> > >>> There are a few people who hit this. How many people use a box with over > >>> 256GB memory? > >>> > >>> And you can work around this with "dma32_size" kernel boot option. > >> Well, since the kernel has not crashed before this change there's really just > >> two options as per upstream kernel regression policy: either we fix it or we > >> revert it. > > > > As I wrote, here is a patch that can be applied to cleanly to the git > > head: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tomo/misc/0001-x86-two-stage-swiotlb-initialization.patch > > > > It fixes the problem. Yinghai, can you test it? It should work but > > it's good to confirm it. > > i tested already, it works.
Ok, mind someone please resend the agreed-upon patch with a Tested-by/Acked-by line so that i can apply it?
Thanks,
Ingo
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