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SubjectRe: Panic on 8-node system in memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid()
On 01/24/2014 10:24 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
>> FWIW, I did turn of memblock=debug. It eventually booted, but
>> slooooooooooowly.
>
> then that is not a problem, as you are using 4k page mapping only.
> and that printout is too spew...

This means that, essentially, memblock=debug and
KMEMCHECK/DEBUG_PAGEALLOC can't be used together. That's a shame
because my DEBUG_PAGEALLOC config *broke* this code a few months ago,
right? Oh well.

>> How many problems in this code are we tracking, btw? This is at least
>> 3, right?
>
> two problems:
> 1. big numa system.
> 2. Andrew's system with swiotlb.

Can I ask politely for some more caution on your part in this area?
This is two consecutive kernels where this code has broken my system.


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